The main point is: Government should get out of the picture entirely; if the "corporation" is government owned and hence the board of directors, they are justified under corporate law in setting salaries for the officers. This is really a non-issue if the corporations aren't taken over by the state under the fiction of "ownership."

The joys and benefits of Fiat Currency are manifest, here! They are simply going to wave their magic money creation wands and more money will appear! Poof! Maybe the Poof! will be a collapse of their house of cards?

The "Global Warming Petition" mentioned earlier was started by Dr. Arthur Robinson, former director of the Linus Pauling Institute. One of the most prominent scientists signing this petition was Dr. Edward Teller, father of the H-Bomb; many Nobel Laureates also signed to show their disbelief in this junk science. I signed as well, since I'm a retired Ph.D Physical Chemist as well as a rancher.

So-called "greenhouse gases" are a fraud; there is better evidence that the Sun is a long-term variable star which has a cycle from maxima to minima of ~350 to 400 years. Evidence from Mesa Verde (tree ring data) shows this to be the case. Data has been manipulated by the Marxist University of East Anglia to show trends that don't exist. Kudos to these corageous scientists from NASA.

Socialist Security (not a typo!) has always been an extortionate system; for a while there actually WAS (past tense!) a "Trust Fund" until Ol' Lyndon robbed it to fund his "Great Society." These days S.S. pays a barely subsistence payout. Thanks for nothing, Uncle Franklin!

And another thing you can do in Illinois: vote, even after you're dead.

No, no, no, no, no That's absolutely the LAST person for the ticket! Too many of us as conservatives couldn't stomach another Establishment hack politico in addition to Romney. I'll "stay home" if this happens!

Buried in the last paragraph is the news that U.S. Treasuries were downgraded from AA+ to AA over a week ago, yet the MSM kept mum on the subject.

An earlier poster stated the difference between "types" of conservatives; Ron Paul is the only Principled conservative (I really DON'T like the word "Conservative") left standing. I'm looking for a candidate who unreservedly upholds the Constitution of the REPUBLIC, not the Democracy. Talk has surrounded using one's head? Many of the columnists are using their heads for b*tt plugs. The RINO-commentators are trying to sway those of us still wanting a non-establishment candidate to "rally" behind another "lesser of two evils." Bah!

As a P.S. to my previous post: This was an excellent article, and very even-handed.