What are we gonna do?  If you read those of us who kvetch constantly about not just what’s wrong but exactly what’s wrong you probably get a kind of fatigue after a while.  That’s understandable.  I strongly believe that if you are in the business of pointing out the bad stuff you have an obligation to produce a credible way that it can be fixed – or else it’s just whining.  While I’ve done my best to produce a framework for understanding how things can go wrong that includes ways to understand fixing the world, it requires a lot of working through the abstraction – and brain ache.

This is where I get specific.  This is my platform.

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If you’re trying to keep track of the money spent by our Federal Government for “stimulus”, you must know that it’s not easy.  CNN has a guide that I’ve found handy that tells me the Government has committed to $1.9 Trillion (With a capital T) and the Federal Reserve about $6.4 Trillion.  It adds up to about $75,000 for every family in the USofA, a number so large that it still defies description.  I was wondering if somewhere in all that was, in fact, a bit for our families – or at least the kids who will have to pay for this.

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