Hi Holly!! Good one!! I know all three guys too.

That truck... Holy Cow!! It's been sitting there for 3 years, flat tires a full of his worldly possessions.
Hope you're having a Great week! Thanks for the visit!!!

Hey..I like it..and know all three guys I think....DW.

For all of my voting life, I have fully supported the notion that less is more when it comes to governement. Among the left's short sighted blind spots is that government is just a fancy word for people. People with all the foibles of human nature, not the least of which is pride, quickly followed by greed. So when the left proposes that 'government' needs to referee private enterprise, they somehow magically forget that untrustworthy people end up overseeing untrustworthy people. Though, once institutionalized, it is very hard to change for good.

However, I have been more than a little po'ed at all the cr*p we are dealing with as the result of short sighted greed in the financial and business communities. So, there seems to be no where to turn that is trustworthy anymore.

I am left with little more than postulating about a system that provides the quickest feedback on the inevitability of shallow pride and greed; whether government or business. With government we have election cycles for feedback, but with an electorate growing dumb and dumber, these cycles are not often corrective; at least in a stepwise progressive manner. With private enterprise we have the open market which, admittedly, can be pretty ruthless at times. As well as, blind to mis-management for cycles that are now too long to prempt catastrophic financial havoc. Multilayered complexity of financial instruments is partly the mechanism here. Will the private sector fix this without a governing oversight? I wonder.

This leaves me with the proposal to require every US citizen to enroll in lifelong continuing education on two fronts. (1) Economics and (2) The Constitution and civil liberties. Of course, then we'd have to figure out who would police the teachers.

What's a mother to do?