[semantic]

You have really come around - that was an excellent summary. I congratulate you on being one of the few FReepers who understands the big picture. Perhaps the only remaining hurdle is to abandon the left/right paradigm by focusing on the true orientation: the People vs the Criminals.

Just ask yourself "What would T Jefferson do?" I believe he would rightly put aside such political issues that typically divide us, and save his moral outrage at what has become of this country. The criminals who masquerade as partisans just laugh to themselves at the stupidity of Americans who keep allowing them to rape & pillage at will.

They don't give a sh!t if it the state spends funds on welfare or warfare, as long as the bankers get to loan phantom money, with interest, payable by unborn generations' taxed earnings.

[Gondring]

Yes, both Republicans and Democrats play the same game but just differ on hiw they cover it up and postpone the inevitable.

If you consume more than you produce (trade balance), and considence the use of finite resources as "production" (fossil-fuel "production" is really "fossil-fuel use"), then you have to reach an end-point eventually.