It is noteworthy that in this thread nobody has said a word about the blatant racist remarks coming out of his mouth. He sounds like he wants another civil war as well, since he insists that he does not recognize our federal government, and up pop all these right wing armed "sovereign citizens....

When you included SS as a wealth distribution scheme, you revealed your underlying Randian mind-set. Wasn't it Alan Greenspan who rigged the SS program back in 1982, at the behest of a president whose initials are RR? The outcome of that effort was to provide Reagan with extra $ to hide his huge mil...

Though I understand what you are saying about dogma, it seems there is a bit of libertarian dogma that floats through a number of posts on this forum. My comments are based on my reading of a number of books that came out before the crash of 2008, and afterward, including Greenspan's Bubbles and Gri...

"I don't think we should "give up." I simply have yet to see a credible, realistic plan for making the government and regulations work the way people think they ought to. Most ideas I've seen are as fantastical and unrealistic as the arguments that anarchists get dinged for making, IM...

It is really fascinating to read all the free market gurus on this forum. Never mind that it was Alan Greenspan, the arch libertarian, raised by that wonderful mother of it all, Ayn Rand, who was responsible for the bubbles that continued to bail out Wall St. every time they crashed the economy. Hav...