That statistic alone is stupifying. It says that whatever the condition, capitalism recovers astoundingly quickly to right the ship. Germany's slate was "wiped clean," and within five years (no, not thanks to the Marshall Plan) Germany's stores were again filling up, people had rebuilt buildings, and in 10 years, Germany was already becoming a new European power again, all because it had a capitalist Finance Minister and Chancellor.
Now, if you and Glenn Beck want to have a gloom and doom pity party, feel free. I shall not participate.
Do you live here in the U.S.?
Back in the days that the empire state building was made, it took only 11 months from the day it was started to the day the last tile in the bathroom was finished.
Today, with all of the Federal, State and local regulations along with the EPA, impact studies and constant inspection hurdles, it would take 5 years to do.
Here in the U.S. we live in a world of bureaucratic webs that inter-tangle with an unbelievable and staggering amount of other inter-tangling bureaucratic webs. The same thing applies to our banking.
The government cannot cure the problem simply because it is the problem.
I just thought there was a possibility that you either don’t live here in the U.S. or are totally blind to the fact that we cannot ever save ourselves until (1) we revolt and take the country back to original constitutional laws as written or (2) we revolt and physically throw out our current government and replace it.
There a no other options. Big Banks/Business feeds Congress. Congress reciprocates and feeds Big Banks/Business. The common people pay for all of it.