David McCollum

Lucy Maude writes with humor and profound simplicity about the Island people she knew & loved. Anne, her orphan protagonist, achieves her dreams of family, friendship and success despite cultural prejudice. She does so by embracing her adoptive parents' values of compassion, loyalty, and hard work. Those timeless values helped Anne overcome adversity and help explain why she is still known and loved around the world. I remember watching busloads of Japanese tourists arrive in "Avonlea" (Cavendish) to pay homage to Anne, who they had adopted as a national folkhero.

Friedman forgets that a nation's economy belongs to its citizens. Economic globalism is not an economic inevitability. Rather it is class warfare, where the rich of every political party seek to seize all economic power for themselves and democracy, the last refuge of the middle class, be damned!