[ExI] Economy: "The Big Takeover"

[Lee Corbin]

Aleksei writes

> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:42 PM, John Grigg
> > <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No thoughts on this, folks?
> 
> Similar things are gonna happen again, as long as the Wall Street
> folks are smarter than the regulators, or the regulators can be bought
> out by Wall Street.

It's not a matter of IQ, in my opinion.

Similar things are going to happen so long as large amounts
of money can influence government and so long as the government
has the power to spend trillions of dollars on this or that.

The current depression may never end (here) so long as the
government has the power tax trillions to bail out wealth-
destroying companies, who then can in turn funnel billions
back into campaign contributions.

Is anyone besides Ron Paul pointing out that government
power is the heart of the problem? Romney? Anyone?

> Or maybe this should be simplified to: Similar things are gonna happen
> again, as long as the Wall Street folks are smarter than the voters.

Now *that* could be a matter of IQ!  :-)

Lee