Regarding profitis' posted reply on 10 Aug...
       Wow, profitis, I like everything you say.   I agree with everything.   I usually just keep my opinions to myself, since if I told the obvious, logical truth to most people, I would eventually become a target of resistance and more.   I'm already thought of being strange with my Asperger's syndrome as it is.
       If it isn't an economic collapse, then social unrest will be just as bad.   I didn't know this when I started this thread.   At least I can say it now.

--Lee

I agree that social unrest is coming.At least riots are coming.I hope to never kill anyone myself,only in self defense.If its a case of him or me.I chose it to be him.I would not kill anyone over a scrap of bread or an egg.Most of us americans will not allow another american to starve.We may not pay his medical bill or buy them smokes.I have bought a cup of senior coffee at McDonalds for one.

Warren Buffett is a pig.The media tells us to honor him because hes a billionaire.Buffett  plays hardball,extracting every dollar the regulators will allow his utilities to charge,as people in six Iowa cities discovered.Buffett used government to enrich himself at the expense of others And his lobbyists found it very easy to bend the state  legislators and others to his will.Warren Buffett is forcing people in Johnson City,Iowa to pay more than they should for electricity,And that means fewer jobs and more hardship for people just so he can make more billions.

I have a lot more I could talk about.It just reminds that I said over a year ago that our system is so broken,Whats the sense of doing anything?On a tv show I watched some this morning"Out of Order"
It did end on a positive note that it is up to the people to make their voice heard.Warren Buffett is not the nice man we are lead to believe that he is.Likewise for many others.Calif suffered the high electrical rates imposed on it by Ken Lay and Enron.VP Dick Cheney did nothing to keep that from happening(he did not care).Electricity prices had skyrocketed.A kilowatt of power that had cost $30.00 a year earlier was now priced at $600.When people cut back on power the prices stayed higher anyway!With corruption like this running amok in the USA.Cheney had many meetings with energy-industry executives and he fought to keep them all as secret as he could.

At that time both president Bush and VP Cheney and their aides blamed the crisis on calif officials.In 2002 Enron had collasped and Ken Lay died in july,2006.His fatal heart attack came after his fraud conviction,but before his sentencing.That means his conviction will not stand.As for the market Manipulations that cost energy customers tens of billions of dollars in electricity charges alone and left California with debt it will take two decades to pay off.And the laws that Enron had written to suit its schemes remain on the books!These laws continue to enrich the wealthy few at the expense of many through auctions that are called markets but act instead like bid-rigging systems approved by government.

The posts above come from the book" Free Lunch " by David Cay Johnson published and CC.2007.