While he is by far not everyone's cup of tea, I watched Michael Moore's film, Capitalism - A Love Story, on More 4 over the weekend. What I found most astonishing in a positive way was the footage of FD Roosevelt giving his State of the Union speech to Congress but, due to ill health, it was made on camera from the White House. The date of the speech was January 11th, 1944. Within the body of the speech, FDR proposed a new Bill of Rights, which strikes me in the light of all of Tomorrow's Company's discussions as being needed more than ever. The speech can be read at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html
and listened to on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwUL9tJmypI. What do folk think about this suggestions of 67 years ago? Unsurprisingly, they remain the source of much bitter discussion on the web.

Moore's film also made some fascinating points about the nature of the constitutions that US helped the defeated countries of Germany and Japan adopt, which were incredibly inclusive and sought to avoid the polarisation of wealth (in the US the top 1% own more than the bottom 95%!). 

Einstein remarked, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them".  FDR's thinking seems to offer a very sound and equitable alternative approach.