FULL: President Obama Speech at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington,...

On Wednesday the President gave an eloquent speech meant to touch all Americans but he failed to go beyond lip service to the twin themes of the original March, freedom and jobs. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the freedom issue last week in his promise to use the Courts to attack the illegal voting laws enacted by the renegade states of Texas and North Carolina but the jobs issue requires a programmatic approach to attack America's structural inequality which has not appreciably changed since 1963. Inspite of an obstructionist, Republican controlled House of Representatives the President could have called on the American people to put pressure on those representatives to enact a public works bill to repair our crumbling infrastructure and create jobs. We need policies that address inequalities. As Karl Marx said better than anyone else "the philosophers have analyzed the world in various ways, the problem however is to change it.