People with skills are finding it difficult to enter the USA. However if you are seeking welfare and can cross illegally you can seek amnesty. This is a massive hipocracy that is costing USA. Most countries don't allow people born to foreign parents citizenship. Until the overloaded unionised schools and facilities can cope turning these people into bountiful contributing members of society the amnesty will create welfare voters.

Zimababwe: - the govt forced pension co.s to invest 55% of their funds in govt bonds to safe guard the pensioner. One wipeout later and it was the Govt's portion that lost virtually all its value. The 401K is a brilliant scheme and should not be toyed with.

It is a toe in the door of your pension. Rampant inflation or "readjustment" would mean more taken.

Take a look at what went to evolve Victorian Society to what exists today. The predicted innundation of horse manure from pre petrolium society never arose. The reality is that Cars as we know them are not the future, as were the cars of the '60s were for today. Oil dependency is strategically limiting. BUT the whole of society has to evolve to include accomodation for businesses and people. The current stock of property has to be changed as will be the use of cars. Electric cars chew more from the antiquated grid and with current structures will cause a knock on problem.

This begs belief. Squeese one way and a bubble will rise elsewhere. I see they are deliberately doing this for bond stability , but it means a whole whammy of the market will go informal.

Where, not my part of the world. It is easy to cherry pick...

Liberals tend to rely on law for their thinking. Realists tend to look towards what makes law. It is not only the legislators but the constant testing of laws and the bright people always find ways around. So when writing laws they should include economists, statiticians and interested parties so as to write them properly the first time

Only the arrogance of psuedo intellectuals will believe elitism. Conservatives tend towards realism.

Throwing money in to ease cashflow with out structural changes was like the Stimulus money QE1 & QE2 being poured into a hole without fixing the structural problems as a condition. Gosh, they come from the same dude and all they managed was getting him enough margin to get a second term. Detroit is being talked about even in this back water. It is going to fail very hard and hit a worse economy in what is refered as a double whammy.

Recall Soviet systems, if you didn't believe in and support the revolution you were mentally defective and had to be re-educated or put in an asylum. The mental restriction is a fairly effective means to stop nut jobs getting guns, but it won't stop them getting into politics.........