19 October 2008

Not specifics - still slightly political

At this point, I have come to the conclusion of: We're screwed either way.

I would like to call for a landslide. One way or the other. Something that is beyond arguing or anything like that.

This country has some serious problems. Debt, debt, debt.

1 comment:

Escape From Peoria said...

I saw this quote the other day, laughed 'til I cried.

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman

Also, if the mood should strike you, watch the movie Contact. Released in 1997, there is a wonderful line about the price of constructing the worm-whole creating, transportation machine at a whopping $300 billion. Little did they realize we would spend more than twice that a decade later on bad debt.

Bretton Woods: Redux is in the works. The last one created the Fed, IMF and World Bank. The question is, How much damage will they do this time?