I've gone full round the economic theory circle -- zigging so far left (right?) as to imagine the benefits of libertarianism. But I abandoned that too because of the cruelness of unchecked economics. Yet I have yet to see government's intervention offering permanent solutions. So far nobody's been perfect -- clear of influence, 100 percent clean in motives. Used to think something else was possible, but Congress' actions particularly in the last year proves to me it's hopeless. If you can't get anything done when you have a majority because no one will accede anything, we will never accomplish anything. Consequently, I've stopped paying attention.

Vell de big problem mit der Austrians is that they believe in the free markets. Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan and all that junk. We say: "Look at what your free markets have accomplished." They spit back: "Hah, those were not free markets." Problem is: there is no such thing. Left unregulated, entities dominate markets and eat up the competition until there is only one top feeder left, which then gets very hungry and dies. This Hayek garbage was used to poison minds and research. It's the academic gobbledeegook that helped get us where we are today.