re: #186 Locker
You know for the record I think Ron Paul is kinda nuts. I don’t hold to the Austrian school of economics. And I’m totally OK with fiat money and John Maynard Keynes.

The thing is - we’re approaching the insolvency threshold fast enough so that people like Paul gain appeal. Because if you listen to what people like Ben Bernanke were saying about the housing crisis two years ago, a year and a half ago… he’s the one who sounds like a nut - not Ron Paul!

I shouldn’t single out the US, either, it’s a worldwide phenomenon.

But the idea that people protesting taxes and spending are all extremists or racists or nutters or have no rights because they get medicare… well… this doesn’t bode well.

You expect “some kind of action before failure”. What would that look like exactly? And you expect Washington, with its awesome track record, to get it right?