...that when the tide turns again we get a better grade of Republicans than we've had. Reading Atlas Shrugged needs to be a prerequisite. I want ideological purity and I want my politicians to say "Who is John Galt?" whenever they see the power grabs and bloat. No more Wesley Mouch.

Massachusetts has made clear there is going to be no more "sanction of the victim" going on as America permits itself to be turned into a 3rd world country.

This fight is going to be big - and to be successful it needs to open up all sorts of cans of worms. Explaining to high schoolers why the minimum wage doesn't work. Because it needs to be universally obeyed in all nations or the nations that don't pay will get all the factories and jobs. Sure, when America was one of the only industrialized nations you could do that - now the Chinese and all the rest can by the same technologies and tools we can. With those tools they can build more tools - and have done so. So now the minimum wage is pure folly. A national suicide note added to our Constitution.

All these things need to be addressed if the world is to stage a dramatic recovery. My optimism is tempered by my knowledge of the past and the patterns that occur. I have to hope that this version of Rome still has a few hundred years before it finally does succumb and the lights go out.