The result of an electorate that believes in the free luch is economic misery. The misery leads to fear and in the past has led to some huge evils. God forbid we go down that road.

Please take a look at the picture used for the story on the banned gun list. There are five guns on the table. One looks like a semi auto rifle but aren't the others three BB guns a a muzzle loader? Had to have been the results of a gun turn in program. Thank God we got those BB guns off the street. Someone could lose an eye.

Even an idiot can come out with good advice. Pump shotgun is a better choice for home defense though. I would only use a double barrel if I was guarding a stagecoach. Maybe that was one of Joe's early jobs. Using a rifle inside a house for defense is a good way to kill your neighbors, especially is you're using 7.62. Save that for the longer range work. Also if you're packing a 9mm go with the hollow points. FMJs just don't have enough stopping power.

The money flows back from China like a river (the tsunami thing doesn't work) to buy US government debt. Were it not for the borrowing of the US government our dollars would pile up in China. The pile up would drive down the value of the dollar in comparison to the remnimbi, make Chinese goods more expensive and American goods less expensive.

Keynes was wrong too but that hasn't stopped them from shoving him up our rears.

That is, of course, if you believe the numbers coming out of China. The Soviet Union showed us how to do it too. Oh wait, the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, does it?

A main driver of that innovation is the government driving up labor costs so that machinery is cheaper to put to work than humans. All we have to do to increase employment is outlaw machines. Piece of cake.

Phyllis is a believer in mercantilism. Mercantilism is an economic concept destroyed by classical economics a couple of hundred years ago. Apparently Phyllis has caught up.

Amen Fletch. Trying to reduce international trade makes as much sense as telling everyone they have to sew their own clothes and grow their own food. Everyone would have a job, be undernourished and badly clothed. Buy we'd all have jobs! The big problem in America is too many believe in the free lunch, not in free trade or freedom in general..

Your understanding of the banking, investment and mortgage industries is pretty shallow if you think the government pushing business to make millions of loans to people that couldn't pay back the money had nothing to do with the economic mess we're in now. Instead of David Corn you should read Thomas Sowell (Phd Economics) on what were the roots of the meltdown.