Jeffrey Sachs is touting a "Simple Plan To Save the World" As a first estimate, it would cost $75 billion a year, around $35 billion of which would come from the US. George Bush had the guts to ask the American people to fork over 200 billion dollars for his favorite foreign aid project. Do we have the guts to ask $35 billion dollars for ours?

NY Times article on Sachs

Esquire article on Sachs

Sachs speech in San Francisco

http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/dkv/earth_institute/sachs_kqed.mp3

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/RealNetworks/sachs_kqed.ram

Now, the rest of this diary is yet more Whither
Democrats? thoughts. . .