What would happen? Not one single business platform in America could survive on their own effort. They are purely administrative, as in salaries, delegation, unit productivity by import and cooked books. None of that is sustaining. Dam the water and they dry up and die.

"Are all democrats this clueless on the economy?"   Nope, we're not 70, living on entitlements, cold-hearted cold-souled and polluted by all the things you SHOULD have done but didn't. YOU have no life and you bitterly blame people who do. We have no "corporations" they are inherited distorted business platforms. Con...more

EAT THE RICH... if they taste like oil instead of chicken, so what... your seafood has too since the BP rig disaster anyway.

See... if we had real intelligence and not Bush Logic controlling the course of fuel... we'd have used the recession to retool our nation off oil and gas in every possible way. A lesson for future generations, if any survive... when greedy morons start whining about government spending, smaller government and private s...more

The government is barebones you Kool Aid addict... the money we shell out now is for the billion-a-day Bush Wars and bloated military. it covers the cost of over-printing the Dollar and the interest on it. It covers disasters like OK last night. What we REALLY need to do is find out who YOU are and strip you of EVERY e...more

And in all three of those examples... we didn't recover, we just covered over the debt problem.

It isn't just Bernanke. Every Central Bank in the world is flowing that fiat money into our markets and forcing them to bloat. What really gets me are the IDIOTS who post here that think they are getting rich. "I can go out and buy a Bentley" Go do it. Bet you won't. Bet you won't take ANYTHING out because you are TOO ...more

Very likely. Divide and attempt to conquer. Best we all WAKE UP, recognize this and get rid of them before they do us in.

You have it wrong. Actually, many many people have known this path all 100 years you mention. Here's the problem... you and I... we LIVE our lives out in the real world and we elect people we believe will let us keep doing it. The rich? They can spend all day picking away at our elected officials until they own them. T...more