Can We Come Together?

Tony Schwartz sums up how I feel about unity in the United States. "United" is part of our countries name, and yet we seem so far from it. In his blog We're All in This Together Schwartz states that he is now becoming concerned with what our country's destiny may be. He has has lived through many of our nation's tribulations such as, "Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, assassinations, gas shortages, riots, multiple recessions, George W. Bush, 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," and now he is feeling more vulnerable than ever before. For him to have lived and succeeded through all of theses hard time makes me feel comfortable in opening my mind to accept his view points. Then again it puts huge a fear in me because that means that many other Americans are feeling this same way and loss for hope for our nation from its citizens can't be far behind.

I believe that Tony Schwartz is targeting this article to wealthy populations, CEOs of large fortunes, as well as the working class. He wants CEOs to extend their hand in favor of our country and give up a small portion of their income to increase the amount of jobs available within its company. I agree with Schwartz and Micahaels Lewis in the statement, "It's more than a little nuts for a man who has a billion dollars to devote his life to making another billion, but that's what some of our most exalted citizens do, over and over again." Schwartz comments that it saddens him to see this country going down a path of self destruction when what it is going to take is selflessness and concord from a CEO to the working class to begin a forward motion towards economic growth. I know that this will not completely alleviate our nation's problems, but we have to start somewhere and I believe that Tony Schwartz has the right idea on how to take an important step forward.