[ClearCase_guy]

Exactly right: The economic problems are real -- but the Panic in September was engineered and timed perfectly. I do think that John McCain might have turned it to his advantage, but that was beyond him, and the Bush administration provided no support for a free market solution whatsoever.

I'm reminded of the quote from Sir Edward Grey: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

The free market worked well, as did our republic. Now both are gone.

[bvw]

Piracy of a whole nation. Not just a nation, this could be the death of the whole arc of liberty that went back to the Magna Carta, the printing press and the public availability of Bibles, John Wycliffe, the Treaty of Westphalia, René Descartes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Jonathan Edwards, the Founders.

We shall see, won't we? G-d willing.

[happygrl]

Your posts are the grimmest I've read today, but I suspect they are prescient.

My concern is that Someone with the Gold will come and buy up the cheap assests of this country, and then proceed to tell us what to do. That would be the end of our freedom.

How about a Middle-Eastern National Sovereign Fund ? And oh, by the way, your First Amendment rights are now abrogated, because you can' t slander the Prophet.

And we will ensure this by having veto power over textbooks, so that our version of history is taught.

BTW, you will be visited by a memeber of our new National Civilian Defense Force who will check your weapons against our records and limit your ammunition purchases.