Freeper of the year?
You take care.
The phrase "We have the best politicians money can buy" fits the Repubs and the Democrats.
The incestuousness of both political parties with corrupt company executives like at Enron and foreign governemnt contributors is destroying our country and clouding the judgement and wisdom of its leaders.
There are many other Enrons out there (many on a smaller but still a large scale) where auditors, regulators, bankers cook the books and get away with it because of political influence pedaling and because COngress delibereately has not passed any laws to clean up reporting requirements within 15 years that have been repeatedly requested and ignored even though urged by SEC officials.
This reminds me of the plundering of the savings and loans under HW Bush that fattened the Bushes under Silverado and the Democrats like John Glenn and others. No oversight, no regulation just the raiding of people's savings like was done at Enron despite pleas for years to Repubs and Democrats to do something. Pleas that were ignored because too many corrupt savings and loan executives bought the silence of the Repubs and Democrats with campaign contributions (the Keating five).
This is staring to look like the decay, the rot and the decline of the second Roman empire (the US) from within.
Without energy, with 17 months of declining industrial capability (including the ability to make steel and machine heavy equipment)and with record balance of trade deficits for over a decade, the American economy and standard of living could move in the direction of a third world country and her failed banking system and her corrupt politicians and her corrupt corporate executives will not be able to save her.
China must love to see this. All they have to do is keep up the pressure on the US through proxy terrorists and illegal contributions to Repubs and Democrats and through espionage, and then the Chinese can come in and pick up the pieces left of the AMerican economy for 10 cents on the dollar. THe CHinese bought up oil rigs in OKlahoma in the early 1990s for 10 cents on the dollar and these rigs can not be replaced for decades since the US no longer has the steel and fabrication capacity to do so-they were also shipped overseas.
The Chinese have had five thousand years of experince on knowing how to gut and plunder a country like America.
But GW Bush still says China is our friend and GW Bush got elected with the campaign contributions from the CHinese, from Arab terror groups and corrupt executives at Enron just like Clinton and Cheney did.