But hey, this is Democracy, so the ambitious but equally unskilled and inexperienced amongst us will lead us to ruin based on all the false premises you can insure (with) against default. They’re stacked up there in the corner.

Perhaps we are forever forgetting about Earth and its environment because too many people, especially the economic powerbrokers, their bought-and-paid-for politicians and their minions in the mainstream media, are worshipping a “totem”. At least to me, there appear to be many too many people for whom the economy, in and of itself, is the primary object of their idolatry. This behavior is observable, obvious and flagrant. In many instances, these worshippers make what they evidently believe are rational arguments that suggest manmade financial and economic systems are somehow essential to, and an integral part of, God’s Creation; that indicate the growth of the global economy will occur from now on, even after the Creation is ravaged and its frangible climate destabilized by unbridled overproduction, unchecked overconsumption and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species. Aside from the “Economic Colossus” nothing matters to them.

Today, it appears that the financial system of the economic powerbrokers is collapsing like a “house of cards” and the real economy of the family of humanity is threatened. Experts in political economy are saying internally inconsistent and contradictory things. Communications about financials and the economy are generally confused and in disarray. Confidence and trust in the operating systems of finance and the global economy have been undermined by the invention of dodgy financial instruments and unsustainable business models as well as by the promulgation of con games and Ponzi schemes. Transparency, accountability and honesty in business activities have been largely vanquished. A great economic system is being undone by con artists, gamblers and cheats. In such circumstances, does the manmade colossus we call the global political economy remind you in some ways of a modern Tower of Babel?

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

America’s shot. It’s over and Euro-socialism is just a matter of time. Our culture is too stupid and lazy for liberty and the saturation of welfare and class warfare in middle America has sealed the deal. People feel too entitled and too envious of the successful few. This is the land of the lawsuit and the courts were lost long ago. It’s over and only a matter of time before we’re looking at wicked taxation and gas prices on par w/ Europe (due to taxation). Trans fat will be made illegal as are light bulbs and (very nearly) cigarettes and you can bet govt will enforce federalized daycare for kids.

You can get arrested right now if you homeschool your kids without following govt guidelines.

Here is one suggested action. Make it harder for people to skip out of mortgages by redoing bankruptcy laws. To see so many people able to walk away from these contracts scot-free (or as Mr.Bonaccorsi might have it, scot-) was quite a shock to me.

no more so, imo, than the candidate i supported, Hillary Clinton, who is now Secretatry-designate of State.

“Girl will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world … ” (“Lola”, The Kinks)

It makes me nervous that you’ll pop Ayn Rand’s idea for the first half of a column and then spring back into your support of the GOP in the next half.

I’d say that people like you are confusing the crap out young people that are just learning about Objectivism and Libertarianism; as you pitch your support behind people like Sarah Palin; who no logical person from either group would back.

When did you say you were either group? No where. If you are going to steal their ideas, then, please be open that you are a thief.

Also, if you’re in Georgia, know that she is going to be there next week, supporting some Republican in an election that marks the difference between Reid’s world, and Sanity.