"Don't vote, it just encourages them" - Frank Chodorov

What if government was is charge of golf? You'd need lobbyists in St. Andrews! and nobody could make golf 'work'!! Great article Judge!

You can't measure our economy by the employment rate! The housing bubble produced 'employment'. If the Bush economy 'worked' why are we in the pickle we're in? 'Tarp' is a bubble. Fed policy is a bubble. Our 'economy' is an illusion and until we allow the gravity of sound money to work its' way back into our calculations, we'll have no bedrock of measurement to gage our future.

Government 'thinks' they have the 'power' to regulate. They're finding out that it's like trying to regulate gravity. Nothing they do cicumvents the laws of economics. George Bancroft knew it in 1884 when he wrote "A Plea for the Constitution of the United States - Wounded in the House of Its' Guardians" in response to a Supreme Court decision legalizing the payment of private debts with U.S. Treasury notes. He wrote; "Good money must have an intrinsic value. The United States of America cannot make its shadow legal tender for debts payable in (paper) money without ultimately bringing upon their foreign commerce and their home industry a catastrophe, which will be the more overwhelming the longer the day of wrath puts off its coming."

Article I Section 8 authorises the Congress "To coin money" not to print it. Our problem is monetary, not fiscal. If Congress had nothing to spend lobbying would be moot.

The government dictated 'affordable housing' to the banks!!!!

Banks had to play by government's stupid rules. Banks that didn't, died!

This bailout was the 'rule'. "Banks, you give money to poor people and we'll buy the mortgages. How can you lose?"

Government created this mess, not 'dirty capitalists'!

Here's what Ludwig von Mises had to say about the hypocrites in 1932!

“In those countries in which statism has most fully gained control, they manage the affairs of their corporations with about as little concern for the firm’s profitability as do the directors of public enterprises. The result is ruin. The theory that has been cobbled together says that these enterprises are too big to allow them to be managed simply in terms of their profitability. This is an extraordinarily convenient idea, considering that renouncing profitability in the management of the company leads to the enterprise’s insolvency. It is fortunate for those involved that the same theory then demands state intervention and support for those enterprises that...

"Clunker for clunkers".

The dollar is the real clunker in this 'deal'. The old car still works. The old dollar is doomed.

As Yogi Berra put it "A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore".