Face it, our only true hope for the future, is a government based on Mixology!

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Once enough alcoholic beverages are mixed, served, and drank THEN we can finally begin thinking clearly... and start burning down Washington.

Remember our mantra... Drink More, Think Less!

Good luck to all, and to all a good night!

Point proven... :thumbsup

The problem is clear, the reason is clear, the solution is clear. But the paid of the solution is immense.

Many Western countries run their economy like Greece and Ireland. The spand more than they earn and borrow to meet to the gap. This worked fine 30 years ago. Today the production power houses are in the 3rd World.

China, India and others are growing economies on exporting goods to the West.

You either spend what you earn or you tax to meet the gap. Borrowing more and more won't be an option for ever. And who are we borrowing from?

Chinese, Arabs ????

Wars in countries that really don't matter. It's nice to be a World Policeman, but only if you can afford it. Look at who produces the arms to fight those wars. The arms race bankrupted the Soviet Union, the World Policeman race will do the same if our leaders are not careful.

Looking at your presentation, I'm seeing two major points you are trying to make.

The first is that this country has an excess of stupidity. The second involves the planetary conflict between more-managed and less-managed economies, which, for the moment, the united states is losing.

Yes, I agree, this country has let itself become stupider. I suspect you and I have very different ideas about that stupidity, but sure, we have a serious problem as a country, in that we have embraced stupidity, lack of education, and the cult of personality.

I get the feeling you think this is a permanent state, something inherent in teh people, whereas I think it's a cultural effect, something we have done to ourselves, and that people have the potential to be less stupid.

However, it will talke years for america to become less stupid, and right now I don't see any reason to believe americans want to be less stupid, I think we want to be more stupid.

HOWEVER - we have been ruled by the rich since reagan, and rule by the rich has been just as stupid as anything else we americans have done. The rich create bubbles, let the infrastructure rot, and they have destroyed the american productive economy and threatened national security by letting our infrastructure and logistics base decay.

So, the rich have been just as stupid as anybody. Basing the post 9/11 economy on building unneeded homes and derivative securities and weapons manufacturing was as dumb a fucking idea as anything any birther or 9/11truther ever dreamed up.

And it doesn't matter wether you (or I) think americans are stupid - unless you are going to end our psuedo-democracy, they still get to vote.

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As for more-managed versus less-managed economies - yes that is a huge topic.

But, the country needs to create 41 million jobs in teh next decade to catch up to where we were 20 years ago, before free trade.

This is a national security issue, not just a consumer or economic iissue.

If you can show me any force, any principle, any trend, that indicates that an unmanaged economy has any way to create 40 million jobs, or 20 million jobs, or even 10 million jobs, I'll be very interested in discussing it.

I cannot see any unmanaged force that makes that possible - until the time comes when the american working class standard of living has been reduced to the chinese working class standard of living, and there is no economic incentive to place all manufacturing in the third world. (leaving out of the picture, for the moment, the question of the price of oil and transport.)

Americans are stupid, but are they stupid enough to passively accept that new order - a superrich elite ruling over a working class making a few dollars an hour?