The man in the emergency room needs to get the bullet removed but I don’t think its in his best interest to go through a procedure which quickly gives him lung cancer.

However you may very well be right that the only procedure to remove America’s less inflicted bullet run the risk of complications. But I believe that a delegating leader like Obama can learn from the extreme advice of Ron Paul while avoiding cancer.

… if he’s got a bullet lodged in his lung. He needs to see an emergency room NOW, and worry about Bacon Double Cheeseburgers later.

Obama’s economist, Austin Goolsbee, is an okay sort, but after the NAFTA/CAFTA debacle, there’s absolutely no indication that he’ll advise Obama to make better choices than previous generations.

I think Ron Paul would make a hell of a vice president for Obama. Would never happen in a million years, but still…

I could not accept a reversion to isolationism or Paul’s laizze-faire capitalistic positions. Because it may very well rescue the United States in the short term, but a better system must be employeed in order to keep the US from eventually, after an economic up-turn, witness the crimes of the Gilded Age and eventually a collapse akin to the Great Depression.

I believe that a delegating leader like Barack Obama will not pretend to have the grasp of economic issues like Ron Paul but will bring into his staff and cabinet people who can design economic policies alikened to Paul’s but without the eventual endgame which historically has come from Laizze-faire capitalism.

Witness:

After years of lax lending and too much liquidity, the ponzi scheme known as housing is unraveling rapidly. The Baby Boomer generation is facing foreclosure of its future, as many citizens over the past 7 years sank EVERYTHING into their houses, believing the lie that a permanent new market paradigm was reached, ignoring economics and common sense. The net effect? MILLIONS of Americans now face futures with no retirement options other than Social Security and Medicare.

Witness:

Credit default swaps on the Euro vs. the Dollar indicate that for all intents and purposes, investors believe the United States of America has lost its AAA credit rating. The $9 trillion we have in debt could suddenly balloon to three times its size if we do in fact get downgraded.

Witness:

The backstop that protects the faith in the United States depository banking system, the FDIC, has $53 billion in funds ready to rescue depositors. One bank failure, IndyMac, chewed through $9 billion of that. If a major bank or two more fails, such as Washington Mutual or Wachovia, the FDIC guarantee protecting the banking system from runs will fail.

The last seven years of the Bush Administration have in effect made the United States of America insolvent. We have been on this path for a long time, since 1971 and Richard Nixon’s decision to remove the country from an indexed commodity standard, and except for Ron Paul in the House, no one has the political will to say just how much trouble our country is in.

We see the signs of this already. Dover Plains is facing a cultural shift like never seen before due to economic downturn.

Here is the chart that no one really wants to think about.

http://tinyurl.com/6dapme

Depository institutions – banks – are borrowing more money from the government just to stay afloat in the last year than all of the last century combined and then some.

In some ways, I feel sorry for whoever gets elected, because they’ll have to throw the country into a tailspin to repair the structural damage if they’re willing to make hard choices. If they’re unwilling to make difficult choices and instead just ask everyone to pretend everything’s all right, the systemic collapse of our economy and society (since we are nominally capitalist) will destroy their presidency anyway.