I say about the impending ECONOMIC ARMAGEDDON: “BRING IT ON”!

Americans, for whom apathy in and of itself is a favorite pasttime, always have to have things hit rock bottom or a mass disaster must occur before meaningful action is taken. Case in point, ENRON. Billions of dollars in savings and retirement and over 21,000 jobs had to collapse before any action was taken to reign in (if you could call it that) the renegade CEOs and the bastard rich investors who encouraged their economic crimes………….

I think Mr Hirschhorn is a bit optimistic if he thinks the problems with our current Fed Govt are not pervasive. Apparently he suffers from the same delusion that misleads the DNC and DLC and other followers of the Democrats… namely that we just need someone who’s “better than Bush” and hopefully that will fix things.

The problems run well deeper than the President, his Cabinet, the Congress. Government is broken, and the break is irreparable because the Govt has become the embodiment of a system of graft, cronyism, corruption, bloat, and general civil servant apathy. Every branch of the Govt has become politicized and beholden to the wealthy, with “wealthy” meaning both individual citizens and businesses.

What our nation needs is a wholesale revamping. But this will never happen because too many people are too used to seeing money and material items as their keys to personal worth, success, and security. Any revamping of the system would heavily affect our monetary system. The majority of Americans would not likely be willing to suffer several years (perhaps even a decade) of confusion while a new system worked out its kinks.

Those whose monetary and material interests would be negatively affected will most assuredly reject any attempt at reforming the system.

But it will have to happen. The question is whether it happens as a result of an explosive level of anger culminating in a bloody coup, or as a course of action to which most Americans begrudgingly agree with acknowledged sacrifices.

Any constitutional convention called today would merely make legal and “constitutional” the de-facto destruction of the constitution that has taken place under the Bush/Cheney/Gonzales regime.

What is needed now is the creation of a new mass socialist political party to represent the survival economic needs of the vast majority of people . The U.S. economic system of gangster capitalism, which has been in decline for thirty years, has resorted to militarism and global war, to maintain their wealth and power.