For goodness sake, everyone knows the Defense Budget, for example, is bloated. But dear Vaughn, do you know how much was spent on corporate bailouts, those same corporations who are sending jobs overseas? My guess is that you don’t live in Detroit, for example, where 30% of the working population is unemployed thanks to those jobs going elsewhere. If you want to see the future of the nation, take a closer look at that city, a city that once had the number one public school system in the nation. This is a city filled with engineers and laborers and other hard working folks who have seen the country they built vomit them back up like some kind of bad take-out dinner.

I am quite weary with keyboard know-it-alls who never take a step out in real life and see what the rest of the nation is going through. Away from the glowing screen, Vaughn, people know they are being sold out. Give it any fancy label or philosophy that you like, debate foolish economic theories that all amount to one thing …a big Money Lie.

Pardon me for taking up so much of this site with my own rant right now. I just meant to thank the poster for highlighting this film.

There are no shortage of criticism on monetary policies on this blog, from the Treasury, to the Central Bank, to the White House, and that’s fine. We need all the diverse views we can get. I certainly can.

But there was not a single entry, in recent memory as far back as my first comment here, about the two ongoing wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, normally, I could chalk it up to the lack of care from other bloggers. It’s hard to make a point when you have no idea what you are talking about.

Yet you are an ex-military man. From the tone of it all and the bits here and there, I presume you served the Army at some point. Not a single entry on the current affairs conducted abroad?

It is slightly strange to read all the railings against the “New World Order,” the UN, the new international currency, but nothing about the two combat theaters roiling and boiling.

You can’t begin talking about cleaning up the budget deficit without talking about the Defense Budget. You can’t talk about preserving the American dominance, be it culture, economic or otherwise without addressing the global reach we have with our Naval positioning and outposts around the world.

The lack of this, to me, is a peculiar weakness. By now I would expect a few takes, insightful or in general about the monetary black hole, that is the spending bill of two wars. What are your proposals on this? Stay the course? Retreat? What?

Do you believe in the mission? Did you believe in the missions?

Oh my goodness. Call Frontline, have them produce it, have them dig up more because you certainly haven’t done much homework of reaching out where you can gain credibility. By just hearing the names of the talking heads—Jesse Ventura?

This is going to be like that WTF Blanket, isn’t it?