demicans/republicrats, different train, same destination.
Pat/Rick,
Catchy title, don't you think? It got your attention
As I get older, I've come to realize that there are forces so much more powerful than political parties at play. Like I was pointing out in my original post, the Fed has more power than any Congress. Gold standard? Fort Knox is nearly empty (watch the next few months as Congress begins to seek accounting for the movement of our gold reserves.) Get out of the Fed? Good luck. It is what we need to do, but are we willing to step over the dead bodies in the streets from the collapse of our economic system?
I think that we'll weather this storm. Undoing 100 years of the destruction of the dollar won't happen overnight. But, a good place to start is auditing the 12 Federal Reserve banks. Rats tend to scurry in the light. It is us, the American people, that have to make it perfectly clear that chartered jets for the Speaker of the House, $2 billion vacations to the Taj Majal, $1 Trillion in "stimulus" money to political friends, tracks of land for the former Speaker (Hastert), etc., just aren't going to be permitted.
60% of the US populous getting some form of government entitlement check isn't going to fly anymore either. It is time for people to get out of the wagon and start pulling. There are a whole bunch of us who could use a break.