[arete]

This is a course toward destruction & oblivion, nothing less.

You don't have to convince me. I've said a thousand times that the FED was out of control and that Greenspan was nothing more than a political punk and Wall Street pimp. Greenspan created the original bubble for Rubin and Bubba, and all those thieves on Wall Street. After the robbery was complete and the bank vaults empty, he raised interest rates to pop that bubble. With the economy in recession, he is now trying to recreate the bubble again by flooding the system with money and easy credit. Wall Street, the bankers and the politicians will be saved while the average guy gets screwed again. It is not only criminal (IMO) but appears to be destined to make things worse. We are now bombing Iraq everyday and Bush has decided that we need a dose of imperialism to make things right or at least provide cover for an economy that is doomed. Put the sons of the ruling class elite on the front lines and see if Georgie is still beating the drums of war every day. It is very troubling.

Richard W.

[steveegg]

I followed you up until the "war for more power" line. What we've got in the Middle East is something that, if not dealt with now, will turn around and bite us in the privates so hard that Dow 3000 won't matter. The extent to which I disagree with the conduct of the war is that we haven't acknowledged and targeted the root of the conflict (namely, the resumption of the Islamist march across the globe), only some of the symptoms (Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and now Saddam Hussein).