my connection with the tea party

[eppie]

And of course, our politicians wonder why we keep having recessions and depressions, and though we get out of them, they try to look for solutions to prevent them from occurring again. Thus far they have failed, and that is because there are no solutions. No amount of "deregulation" can prevent these booms and busts. As Marx said, they are an INEVITABLE part of a capitalistic system such as ours. The sooner politicians can take their blinders off and realize this, the better off they and the rest of us (or almost the rest of us ) will be.

I agree. What the tea party and neocon voters don't understand, or don't want to understand is that many companies have a much bigger power over them then the government.
So why would you be in favour of the government not interfering with your life while at the same time you find it OK that a company does......with companies you are SURE that their first interest is making profit.

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But, it's a ponzi scheme... One that may play out for decades before the economic system meets it's end. Eventually, like Greece, the piper must be paid.

Indeed, another example of a country where they pay too little taxes.
Same as in Italy. Italians are the richest europeans (personally), most of them own houses without having mortgages and they don't have much other debts either. Mainly this is because they all evade taxes.

Results are of course a bad working government.....a traffic infrastructure that is probably even worse than the one in the US, scary hospitals, a police force that doesn't work efficiently or not doesn't work at all etc. But if you want tpo earn money, the government wont bother you....they even wont check if you declare the correct income.