My response to Dr. Streicher’s “Chickens trapped in a cage” is that he is chicken. While I agree with his argument about fear and greed vs. courage, where is his courage? He complains about the macro issues of corporate greed … “Wall Street Pocketbook” outsourcing jobs to China. Then he complains about the micro issue of “the official puppets of the rich,” i.e. politicians. The only recommendation he makes is that Americans must “break away from a fixation on materialism.” If I read it right, he wants capitalism to continue to be restrained, which will weaken growth even more. The …