[cicero2k]

We're past engineering solutions, business solutions, economic solutions. The reason is that this is not a presidency of making the US better, it's a presidency of installing an ideology that preserves it's perpetual existence.

Correct. Anne Barnhart is doing a tax protest. This is misguided. The path would be for the producers to stop producing. That's our only leverage. When the collapse occurs, sooner than later; we can dictate terms from a position of strength.

They need us. We need to demonstrate how much, even if we temporarily share the pain.

Tough love is tough.

[formosa]

We are going to share the pain no matter what. Better it be quick and short-lived pain rather than a than this long drawn out nightmare.

[Nuc 1.1]

How does a producer strike work out for the Chicoms and the Norks? The government will not let us strike. The limbs in the population won't strike with us. You may argue that we are not the Chicoms or the Norks. Yet.