I advise counterfeiting. We should legalize the counterfeiting of any unit of currency that the government can only produce at a loss. If you can make a buck producing passable pennies or nickels, you should be allowed (you should be commissioned) to do so. Why pay Tim Geitner $1.85 to make a hundred pennies if Fat Tony will do it for .90 ?

"Moreover, his dry, sarcastic humor comes across to many Americans as elitist. " I enjoy dry humor. I have not seen it. Please, one example.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.