[mtrott]

OK, Mr. Holdren, send me a picture of your log cabin sans electric service, your bicycle you use for your primary mode of transportation, provide proof you have no cell phone, do not fly in any air craft, have no investments in any industrial companies, and then we can talk.

[Pecos]

The only way a free market would decide to "de-develop" the U.S. would be after a massive (think cataclysmic scale) brain washing campaign. .... I guess you couldn't really call it a “free” market after that, could you?

[Da Coyote]

“OK, Mr. Holdren, send me a picture of your log cabin sans electric service, your bicycle you use for your primary mode of transportation, provide proof you have no cell phone, do not fly in any air craft, have no investments in any industrial companies, and then we can talk.”

Well said.

I second that.