○  名人演讲：a tale of two cities  ○

treets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. there are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. there is despair, mr. president, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.

in fact, mr. president, this is a nation --. mr. president you ought to know that this nation is more a "tale of two cities" than it is just a "shining city on a hill."

maybe, maybe, mr. president, if you visited some more places. maybe if you went to appalachia where some people still live in sheds, maybe if you went to lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. maybe, maybe, mr. president, if you stopped in at a shelter in chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, mr. president, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use.

maybe, maybe, mr. president. but i'm afraid not.

because, the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. president reagan told us from very the beginning that he believed in a kind of social darwinism. survival of the fittest. "government can't do everything," we were told. "so it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. make the rich richer -- and what falls from their table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class."

you know, the republicans called it trickle-down when hoover tried it. now they call it supply side. but it's the same shining city for those rela

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