A Darker Future For Us

If the GOP is to come back they must break with Wall Street and big business. Business has tried to turn the employee class in this country into peasants by flooding the labor market with illegals and visa abusers. They have shipped millions of jobs overseas through a perversion of free trade that allows Asian countries to rig currencies and prevent the natural balancing of trade deficits. Big business protected this perversion because they did not want currency fluctuations to wipe out their profit margins. This is not free trade, but crony special interest capitalism.

These two groups give more money to Democrats and cost the Republicans millions of votes. Cultural and economic populism will work. It is time for a change.

Dear Mr. Samuelson,

In the forth coming Economic Forum, is it possible to propose a "single currency for the Universe" so that we measure the wealth, economic performance, trade between nations/balance of trade, GDP etc by a single currency. This currency could be issued by the IMF like it's own SDR's so that it is not linked to any single country like the USA. So much resources are being spent on maintaining differnt currencies in the world and monitoring the movement between currencies. In the end a simple business entity has to deal with complicated movement of currencies and commodities under the present system that strains trade volumes and profits.

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Thanks and regards,

Venkata Ramanan

I am a 54 year old white male - unemployed - make me rich, osama!

wrt medical costs and an aging population, people need to chose to die. choose to not treat cancer, a heart attack, or stroke. choose to die in their 40's, 50's or 60's like their grandparents instead of living at any cost.

Yeah, those spoiled, frivolous people either without health insurance or woefully under insured, just raking in the cash and living the Life of Riley. Imagine how foolish they were to think it could last forever.

Good article! Handling the needs of the aging baby boomers will test the ingenuity and resources of this great country. With 90% or more of a person's health care costs usually spent in the last year of life (and with these health dollars likely to increase) there will be a real need to balance this expense with other equally pressing financial demands in our society. Wisdom and compassion, on the scope of Solomon, will need to guide future leaders.

NO; We are barely above 3rd world status. If it does it will be in the next generations, like my great grandchildren's.

The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I did not vote for Obama.

With thanks to wendydk, here are answers to some of the smears against Obama using various non-partisan sources. Investigate for yourselves before believing anyone's version of the facts or "unanswered questions":

Where Obama was born and his birth certificate: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Rezko: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

Ayers: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp

Rashid Kahlidi: http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=23 and McCain???s donations to him http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html

Are three former Fannie Mae executives economic advisers to Obama?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/are_three_former_fannie_mae_executives_economic.html

Is Obama's brother really dirt poor in Kenya and living on a dollar a day?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_obamas_brother_really_dirt_poor_in.html

How many times did Obama vote PRESENT as a state senator and why?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html

Obama"s relationships with corrupt Chicago politicians
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html

NRA ads regarding Obama violating second amendment right to bear arms
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

Jerome Corsis The Obama Nation:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/corsis_dull_hatchet.html

Obama wants to teach sex ed to Kindergartners?
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html

Obama plans painful tax increases for working families:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.html

Context Included: Obama on Iran
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/context_included_obama_on_iran.html

Did Obama write that he would stand with the Muslims and that he nurses a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward whites:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

Other purported quotes from Obama???s books: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

Did Hamas endorse Barack Obama?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_hamas_endorse_barack_obama.html

Claims that Obama is a Muslim, attended a Wahabi school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html

Barack and Michelle Obama spent $450 on lobster and caviar at the Waldorf at taxpayer expense
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_michelle_obama_spend_450_on_room.html

50 Obama lies and counting
http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=9

The Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan Controversies
http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=21


A 40 year republican

Obama's plan for jobs on Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other coal producting states, and Obama's plan for dealing with the high cost of energy, including electricity generation.

An audiotape of an interview Barack Obama did in January 2008 with The San Francisco Chronicle has surfaced in the final days of the presidential campaign. On the tape Obama tells the interviewer how he will use environmenal laws to kill the Coal industry,

"so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can ... It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

Also says he's policy will cause price of electricity to skyrocket.

Now, why would Obama say that in San Francisco and not Pennsylvania? We've seen him do that before, right? Something about guns and religion.

And why did Newsweek take their story on the Pennsylvania campaign down Sunday after this story broke?

Judging by the long lines, it will take some time to get all the votes logged, let alone counted.

Americans - ALL Americans - should feel proud that so many are participating - I can't think of a more effective way to show the terrorists and others in the world who wish us ill that we are still strong, still brave, and still the greatest democracy in the world.

What a great day for America.

The economist John Maynard Keynes's 'open letter' to Roosevelt in December 1933, at the depths of the Depression, began:
'You have made yourself the trustee of those in every country who seek to mend the evils of our condition by reasoned experiment within the framework of the existing social system. If you fail, rational change will be gravely prejudiced throughout the world, leaving orthodoxy and revolution to fight it out.' (Quoted from D Markwell, 'John Maynard Keynes and International Relations', page 176)

This might be substantially true today, as it was 75 years ago.

Keynes wrote from Washington in 1934: 'Here, not Moscow, is the economic laboratory of the world'. (Also quoted from Markwell, page 176)

This too is surely true today.

The economist John Maynard Keynes's 'open letter' to President Roosevelt in December 1933, at the depths of the Depression, began:
'You have made yourself the trustee of those in every country who seek to mend the evils of our condition by reasoned experiment within the framework of the existing social system. If you fail, rational change will be gravely prejudiced throughout the world, leaving orthodoxy and revolution to fight it out.' (Quoted from D Markwell, 'John Maynard Keynes and International Relations', page 176)

This might be substantially true today, as it was 75 years ago.

Keynes wrote from Washington in 1934: 'Here, not Moscow, is the economic laboratory of the world'. (Also quoted from Markwell, page 176)

This too is surely true today.

For America to continue to be an economic superpower, perhaps, it will have to regain preeminence in a strong sector of physical industry. That strong sector has to sustain America, when the financial wizards, are puzzled by conundrums of their own making. Presently, America is a financial powerhouse. But what if a time comes, when there is an economic crisis, and there is not enough value to money for buying food? This is just an example of a scenario. But America must be seen strong in a sector of physical industry. That industry, must not be the defense industry as we know it, because the defense market raises questions of propriety, and morality, around the world.

Interesting, we keep being told what a burden Social Security is going to put on the government and younger workers. If a fallacy is repeated often enough, it tends to become "reality." The truth is our Social Security payments were suppose to be invested for us by the government (notice the fallacy). Instead Congress borrowed against it and left IOU's which are now coming due. Perhaps is Congress tied their retirement to the system it would require a fix.

Fear is the mind killer.