Ma'am;...Call me cruel, but I want the depression to hurt, and hard... I don't care if it hurts me, or if I lose all I own, as long as we are all in the same boat.... It takes a great deal to make a society change its mind... Some people, some young and healthy, some black and disadvantaged, and some for no apparent reason -suffer loss and depression in our economy, invest badly, are ripped off, swindled, laid off, dispossessed... When it only happens to a few, and when only a few are made homeless or poor, the rest do not notice.... We blame the victims... We blame fate, and say that capitalism works for me, and so work for it... That is the normal course of affairs, where the big swallow the little, and the family farm gets sold because the profit is squeezed out of it....It is Easy to get used to it, to blame ones self, to turn the pain to self hatred... That process could continue forever until the whole society is used up, and demoralized.... This big crash will make some examine their morals... We love interests when it pays our pension....We do not realize how it can bleed a whole society of wealth, and how it has taken our lives to pay it... Only when it happens to all, to the hard working and the virtuous, when we all have to sweat our jobs and our paychecks, when we have to help our neighbors and watch the rich unwilling to help, and unworthy of their wealth; then we can change our society.... We should examine our morals, the morals we support, and the morals we turn a blind eye to so we can get by.... Now that we find the accumulations of our life times, our wealth, and our houses reduced in value, we should examine our values....We should look at our government which did not protect us from excess, which protects our exploiters from deserved failure, which allowed us to be whip sawed, and reduced to competition to foreign slaves; now we should see capital for what it is...We are blind if we still think capitalism works... How often has capitalism in recent memory depended upon the national debt for its very survival...It is not the task of government to support the economy...The economy should support reasonable government...The government has clearly stated goals which it has always ignored to support capital... When are we going to grow tired of this nonsense???We need our morals ripped off our skin like a scab so we can heal... We need to be disabused of all our false morals, and dreams of wealth beyond avarice..We need the failure of capital to threaten our health and our collective existence.. .. We need to quit identifying with the winners, and the exploiters of people in society, and see clearly that we have been made a nation of losers to feed the parties of the rich...We need to find our morals...We need to find out who we are, and to chart a new course.... As long as we allow a few to be thrown overboard as unnecessary to the cause, we are next in line.... We need to defend ourselves, and such self defense is only possible with democracy... The pretense we have of democracy does not defend this people, and is not meant to... Yet, we need defense, and we deserve defense, and should fight back together...The distance between freedom and slavery is not so great that it cannot be covered in a life time... The lure for many will be to surrender freedom and rights to have an income... Too many have gone that far already... We Must not join those we may some day have to fight for freedom...Thanks...Sweeney