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Hello, again, David and I agree with most of what you state in your response. I'm somewhat relieved to discover someone who is actually into maintaining a discourse. It has been strikingly absent in political exchanges over the past ten years or so. In any case, I do not believe that ideologues necessarily drive or operate this publication. Their presence is obviously involved in the commentary to be found here; yet I have found that most of the readership are small business owners or advocates and because of this reality a certain amount of political discourse is absolutely necessary especially when the information they are reading concerns maintaining their livelihoods. There was a time when small businesses not only drove our nation, but provided it with the reputation of being "The Land of Opportunity."

Things have changed. Capitalism has changed. At best, it's become infected with the disease of cronyism. At worst, it's become an anarchistic free-for-all with business practices and models infiltrated by ruthless, amoral and destructive thugs and thieves who have pledged themselves to the obliteration of centuries old business traditions and in doing so have rendered the business climate, at best, a Force Five hurricane. Can honest business people survive, much less prosper in conditions such as we have today? What good are markets if one has a fundamental mistrust of the way they function? How does one address grievances in a situation like we have today? We usually would rely on the ballot box; but that doesn't seem to be working very well. What's left to us? I want to know so I come here, among other places, for ideas, to find out what's happening out there and to, hopefully, find out what the crooks are cooking up for their next assault and the crooks? They're connected, connected to a majority of those involved in running our nation. Talk about the rock and a hard place. Of course the talk will get around to politics and as far as I can tell, there's a lot of politicking and not much of it is addressing what's REALLY happening in the USA. I'm hoping (Really, I'm an optimist - a person who can admit that something's wrong and then begin to consider solutions) that good old American ingenuity and effort can somehow affect the situation because I've seen bad before, but never quite as bad as this and we're going to need all the help we can get.