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Sir;... Capitalism has been on life supports for a long time... It is not that there is no wealth here, or no markets, but in letting capital follow its own course it has been exported, and goods have been imported until the wealth of the society has been sucked up, and the people empoverished in a reverse mercantilism... It is great if you are trying to develop a world economy, but the same situation maintains there, so that people across the globe are losing their wealth as well.. If I were in charge, I would be pushing America to a war time economy, so that if the whole economy falls, that basic goods and services would be provided for... Letting the situation go on unmanaged only means that we will suffer more, and face war, and possibly a violent revolution... Now, I have been a revolutionary forever... I should look forward revolution... I do not; but have been terrified by the very thing I think essential... When societies fall, and when economies fall they fall on people... I live in the wasteland of Michigan, and we have been in depression for seven years...I have some money in the bank, a government insured pension, and my wife works for the PO...I can't count on any of it, nor of the value of my house holding...The government and the economy are no more than a row of dominos or a house of cards... Those people who have lived high squeezing every last cent out of the government and the people are not going to easily give up their wealth to support us now, but the profit has been drained, and many of us have been pushed to the margin of existence...If government cannot protect us from poverty or from insecurity or from the enemies capital has made abroad; then why keep it??? If the economy does not serve all of us; why keep it??? We need to find a way of reforming our government and society so it works for people, and does not waste lives... We cannot do that without a re-evaluation of all values... We have to remember that these forms: government, religion, the economy, even rights, and words, and all forms really, are forms of relationship... We have to be able to relate, and the system, however it is concieved has got to work for all people...That ain't what we got... And, reforming society is a dangerous occupation that is only done because it is unavoidable... Revolution is not a lark, and you see it now, people talking about seccession or a violent defense of values... We have been led thus far into disunion, and it will take a gigantic effort to keep us together, and I hope, for good... Thanks...Sweeney