There isn't much polling done in Minnesota regarding the race, however.
The
one poll I saw trumpeted in the local paper had the challenger with a 3%
lead if you narrowed it down to the town in Minnesota that he lives in.
So...it made for a splashy headline until you knew that particular detail.
I did want to make it clear that I do want to vote for
Jim, however, before I presented this video:
Now I even have a reason to vote against Cravaack! **joy**
...if undecided voters are looking for more, they may take into
consideration one Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California, as a possible
crystal ball for a glimpse into the future of a Republican-controlled House of
Representatives. If independent voters are looking for consensus-building
solutions that will address our lagging economy, Issa is a great example of how
a Republican-controlled Congress will deliver anything but. Rather than work
constructively on solutions, a Republican House will spend its time and taxpayer
resources on frivolous, politically driven “gotcha” games designed to embarrass
the administration.
You see, Mr. Issa likes investigations. Well, he does now that there is a
Democratic administration, anyway. See, he didn’t spend a lot of time as a
government watchdog before 2009. Now he uses his office to inflict political
damage on the administration, oftentimes without a shred of evidence and never
with any bipartisan support.
So there's that.
Reason enough to get me voting, obviously. Of course, it takes two
houses of Congress to tango, so when I read
Robert Gibbs' tweet the other day:
Leading to
The Plum Line quote of Senator Turtlehead McConnell hoping
to make Obama a one-term president and devoting his energies to that particular
endgame.
Is there any doubt that these teahadist wannbes don't give a damn about
governing?
Krugman took a closer look at Turtlehead's quote and reports that, no.
No, they don't:
No, he sees it as evidence that they weren’t confrontational enough;
they were too focused on their policy agenda, and neglected the necessary work
of destroying Clinton:
We suffered from some degree of hubris and acted as if the president
was irrelevant and we would roll over him. By the summer of 1995, he was
already on the way to being reelected, and we were hanging on for our lives.
So this time around they won’t bother much with trying to get actual
legislation passed; they’ll focus on the important thing: undermining the man
in the White House.
I get it. Believe me, I get it. Every day I talk to people - especially
progressives - who are deeply disappointed with the leaders they worked so
hard to elect. The litany of letdowns seems endless: Guantanamo. The public
option. Don't ask, don't tell. Too big to fail. And, looming over all of it,
the battered economy and a sense that the case for more government action
wasn't made when it should have been.
Many of the hard-working activists I've met, people who can usually be
counted on to encourage others to vote, aren't even sure they'll go to the
polls themselves this year. They're saying that we've learned in the last two
years just how corrupt the system has become. They're asking, what's the use?
Even I, Mr. Glass Half-Empty, have been a little surprised at the level of
pain and disillusionment.
The disaffection among core voters is there, and it's real.
Now, this is just you and me talkin' here, understand? I'm not a
spokesman for anyone or anything when I say this, but here's what I think: If
you're disaffected and disappointed, then as they say nowadays, I feel you. I
get the anger, the frustration, the sense that the Corporate Party candidates
will win no matter what we do. I understand the "plague on both your houses"
reaction. So it's with that in mind that I say this:
Vote anyway. Please. And vote with enthusiasm, if such a thing is
possible. I think it is possible.
So do I, dang it!
That's why I'm going to be at the booth shortly after 7 AM
on November 2...
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) put his acting skills to work Saturday as he
took President Barack Obama’s favorite campaign analogy to a new level.
Franken, speaking at a Democratic rally at the University of Minnesota,
said Obama’s much-used car-into-a-ditch campaign metaphor is “just a little
too static.”
“Here’s my analogy,” Franken said, warming up for his monologue. “It’s
both more kinetic and, frankly, far more accurate.”
In Franken’s version — delivered at a Democratic rally at the University
of Minnesota — Republicans didn’t just drive the car (the economy, in Obama’s
metaphor) into a ditch, causing a recession. They flipped it over, rolled down
a river bank and dropped it off a 2,000-foot cliff.
“We, the American people, were in the back seat, and the Bush
administration removed all the seatbelts,” Franken yelled as he leaned over
the top of the podium, clutching a stack of paper in his hand. “So we were all
flying around the interior of this car.”
I guess I can only hope his shrillness was over-the-top, frankly.
Ford's decision to invest $850 million in metro Detroit factories -- a
move that will create 1,200 jobs -- is the latest evidence of health in the
domestic auto industry.
More evidence is on the way.
Ford, which earned $4.7 billion in the first half of the year, is
expected today to report a third-quarter profit of more than $1 billion.
This is how recoveries happen. Ford was is under no
obligation to invest another dime in metro Detroit factories. They seem to
have a good trend going for today's stockholders, frankly.
Of course, there is tomorrow. Eventually, the sun comes up and a lot of
us will need new transportation. Ford has decided that it wants to
continue in the business of manufacturing transportation. So they've
decided to quit sitting on their bank account and put that money to work.
Funny how money can solve a lot of problems, isn't it?
Of course, I was familiar with many of the items on the list. I know
that I pay too much attention to things like this.
This was my list of "stop reading this crap" list, actually.
More than helpful when you read too much and it does the job of separating the
wheat from the chaff as well as anything.
For example, knowing that Obama's budget only began on October 1, 2010 means
that a whole lot of blame for the deficit is misplaced.
Knowing the true state of the
tax
situation helps me wade through a lot of the lies.
Remembering that the great bank heist's ball got rolling under W makes it
easier to blame the whole damn mess on the GOPers.
All in all, a great list that doubles as a bullsh*t detector...
I thought about it for a while and realized that the stupidity of the
rightwingnut parade is a concept much like infinity in relativistic physics.
Noise is the energy in the equation, we can
substitute p for mass, and stupidity will be the colossal idiocy.
That leaves us with N=ps2in
this bastardization of Einstein. As
Bubblegum Tate put it a couple of weeks ago at
Balloon Juice:
Peak Wingnut is a decent idea as long as you further explain that it can
only be approached in perpetuity but never actually arrived at.
Since we can barely visualize the scope of s,
we have to wrangle some equations.
If we look at this way, s2=N/p.
Since s is already infinite, squaring it
barely has an effect past blowing our minds completely out of our Euclidean
reality. p, however, is a limited
number - normally referred to as the 27%s. Being a known number and for
the formula to work, N has to increase
greatly.
So the more "true believers" there are making a whole lot of noise in
the process, the stupidity level naturally follows the curve up.
Especially when I thought about the sketchy knowledge of
how those numbers came to be. So off I went to Wikipedia to see what they
had to say about the
United
States budget process. Fun fact:
The President submits the budget request each year to Congress for the
following fiscal year, as required by the
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a))[4]
requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in
January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, Presidents
submit budgets on the first Monday in February.
So Obama, being the new president as of January 20, 2009, submitted his first
budget the following month (February 2009) for
FY 2010.
Which began on October 1, 2010.
Which was 20 days ago.
So...unless the new projections for the Federal Debt are now approaching $55
Trillion and society has collapsed in a Beckian and goldlinian apocalypse of
survivalist, orgasmic proportions, I would have to say that "CNS News" is a
hyperbolic and misleading piece of crap.
Reality continues to have that famed Liberal Bias...
Local (Virgina,
MN) politics seem to be going to the dark side:
City of Virginia Operations Director John Tourville, 56, of Chisholm was
injured Saturday afternoon when he was accidentally shot while hunting with
Virginia City Councilor Charles Baribeau, 64, of Virginia.
According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, the two were out
grouse hunting about 20 miles south of Aurora when a grouse flew up and
Baribeau fired one round. Tourville was struck by about eight pellets in the
face, neck, chest, arm and hand.
I would imagine public apologies could be pending, but I'm fairly certain the
shooter will apologize in this case.
If you're a candidate for public office in this nation, you should expect
questions. The larger the pool of people you claim to be representing, the
more questions you should expect
You should expect this sort of behavior because Americans can be an
inquisitive people.
The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate
candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted
to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at
Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to
release Hopfinger.
Hopfinger has not been charged but the owner of the Drop Zone, the
private security firm that's been providing Miller's security, accused
Hopfinger of trespassing at the public event, a town hall sponsored by the
Miller campaign. The owner, William Fulton, also said Hopfinger assaulted a
man by shoving him.
Click for the article along with a wonderful picture of a couple of American
authoritarian-to-the-point-of-fascists (a.k.a. Nazis) "security"
brownshirts can look like.
It's Alaska, of course, and I will not be voting in Alaska. Considering
how the state is being represented by these jackhandles, I'm a lucky voter...
At this point, I watched, re-watched, and tried to memorize this segment (at
least the polling information!) and I can only hope it gets enough views to blow
MSNBC's servers to heck.
It should be obvious to an American that putting all value into company stock
makes the argument in favor of outsourcing logical and treats the VAST majority
of Americans as slaves to that companies stock values which can only get higher
by cutting costs.
Please realize that if you work for someone in America, you are a cost.
It's not nice and it doesn't even matter if you like your job (if you're
lucky enough to currently have one!), someone overseas could do it cheaper.
If they can't do it cheaper over there, the pressure is on your boss to find one
of your fellow Americans that will do it cheaper.
That's how far the current swing of the pendulum has gone in favor to
business.
So watch this segment from
TRMS last night and spread it around.
Please:
I can only hope (and pray to the FSM!) that people are paying
attention...
(I was going to attempt to mp3 this segment for easier sharing but this
laptop is apparently getting too old...)
I've Never Liked Eric Cantor, just so we're clear on that fact right off the bat.
Since he's been around, my brain translates his appearance on the tube as
"Cantor Oil," since he's too damned oily and slick for my taste.
But
he was on The Daily Show and I respect Jon's attempt to bring
sanity to our
political discourse so, of course, I watched. The show was good enough but
it was the extended interview that caused my ears to tingle. It was Part
2, of the extended Cantor interview, actually, which is currently kicking me to
a 404 - Video Not Found page as I look for it right now. I
can tell you that this line of his dialogue with Jon started at 2:08 of the
aforementioned video:
Cantor: In my state of Virginia and, as you lived in Williamsburg, we have a
law that says you can have free speech. You can put your capital where you want
it. You just have to disclose it.
Wow, that's reasonable, I thought.
Cantor must have championed The
Disclose Act when it came up in the House, right?
...the information above documents the fact that foreign donations go
directly to the Chamber without any intermediary, for instance, through an
“AmCham” or another Chamber affiliate organization. The same Chamber account
funded by these foreign corporation is running a $75 million attack campaign.
That would be the U.S.(Non-American)Chamber of Commerce
attacking the Democratic Party, in case you were not aware.
And capital continues to be as
fungible as
anything...
If you don't read
Mark Morford on a regular basis, you should:
In my calmer moments of euphoric benevolence, when the wine has opened
nicely and the light is streaming in just so, I sometimes find myself awash in
unexpected feelings of kindness and generosity aimed in a very unexpected
direction.
Do you know this feeling? Does it ever slide into you like a warm breeze in
summertime, like a hot knife into your chilled and jaded heart?
Do you ever feel, that is, a wave of empathy for the various egomaniacal,
powermongering doorstops of America, the wonks and politicos, crusaders and
congressional chyme, thinking, "Oh you poor, poor thing, there there now, it
will all be over soon, you'll be dead in a relatively short time and no one will
care anymore about that Very Ridiculous Thing you think is so mandatory to the
lifeblood of American ignorance and pain?"
I do. Well, sometimes.
Behold, Sharron Angle, Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint. Behold the endless parade of
Tea Party dinkbuttons, Nazis and homophobes and God-fearing yoga haters, oh my.
I sip my wine and sigh. What deeply unhappy lives these people must lead, no?
So small and cloistered, panicky and scripted, entirely cut off from anything
resembling the hot thrum of raw, sticky, swear-worded life as you and I know it,
as they shuffle like chilled meatpacks from air conditioned SUV to stuffy
Holiday Inn conference room, threadbare high school auditorium to sparsely
attended right-wing nutball Midwestern church, retirement home, cotton-candy
fairground.
There they are, lurching around the podium, stroking that baby, trying to rally
the troops, working like 10 flavors of desperate hell to mean something to
someone, somewhere, knowing full well what they're selling is a show, a sham, as
they dance and swagger like a doll on a string.
Compassion. That's what we're talking about here. Empathy. A modicum of
understanding. Let us, at the very least, try.
My emphasis for the mirth-inducing lines.
I have to admit that I never thought of the term dinkbuttons since I
prefer teahadists, but I have to admit that it fits the type very well, indeed.
Apologies to Mr. Morford for the extended cut from his column and I hope
you'll
click here to read the rest.
The Erie Canal. Hoover Dam. The Interstate Highway System. Visionary
public projects are part of the American tradition, and have been a major driver
of our economic development.
And right now, by any rational calculation, would be an especially good
time to improve the nation’s infrastructure. We have the need: our roads, our
rail lines, our water and sewer systems are antiquated and increasingly
inadequate. We have the resources: a million-and-a-half construction workers
are sitting idle, and putting them to work would help the economy as a whole
recover from its slump. And the price is right: with interest rates on federal
debt at near-record lows, there has never been a better time to borrow for
long-term investment.
But American politics these days is anything but rational.
We can go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and threaten to blow Iran off
the face of the planet. We can conduct a nonstop campaign of drone and
helicopter attacks in Pakistan and run a network of secret prisons around the
world. We are the mightiest nation mankind has ever seen.
But we can’t seem to build a railroad tunnel to carry commuters between
New Jersey and New York.
The United States is not just losing its capacity to do great things.
It’s losing its soul. It’s speeding down an increasingly rubble-strewn path to
a region where being second rate is good enough.
The railroad tunnel was the kind of infrastructure project that used to
get done in the United States almost as a matter of routine. It was a big and
expensive project, but the payoff would have been huge. It would have reduced
congestion and pollution in the New York-New Jersey corridor. It would have
generated economic activity and put thousands of people to work. It would have
enabled twice as many passengers to ride the trains on that heavily traveled
route between the two states.
The project had been in the works for 20 years, and ground had already
been broken when the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, rejected the
project on Thursday, saying that his state could not afford its share of the
costs.
True enough, in my mind.
We're forgetting that our nation was built on a whole lot of us and
everything we've built needs maintenance.
Then I found an article from
Jeffrey Sachs. He had me hooked after this:
A recent bestseller, The World Without Us, describes how our built
world would fall apart with stunning speed if humanity suddenly disappeared from
the planet. New York’s subways and underground tunnels would quickly flood with
water as soon as the pumps stop. The collapse of manmade structures above ground
would soon follow. A scientist would classify the rapid collapse as another
example of the second law of thermodynamics: Unless we invest high-quality
energy to maintain order, increasing disorder (entropy) becomes inevitable.
That's the kind of principle (bolded) I
can get behind. Without maintenance, everything falls apart.
Of course, reading Jeffrey's solution makes me realize that he would be
shouted down as a rational voice in today's teahadist world:
It’s time to push a long-run perspective, and not the vacuous one of
cutting entitlements for the poor and working class, but a serious one of
investing in human capital, infrastructure, technology, and the environment.
The claim that Social Security and Medicare benefits need to be cut in order to
balance the budget is absurd in an era when the richest percent of households
now bring in around 25 percent of national income. Before cutting benefits
for the poor and middle-class, the rich should first be required to pay in line
with their vast incomes and wealth. That would be at least another couple
percent of GNP, collected ideally through a steeply graduated consumption tax.
Emphasis mine.
The zombie greedheads will provide the overreaction...
...it is illegal to solicit foreign funds for electioneering, the essential
fact is that there are no disclosure requirements that provide oversight to know
whether or not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is obeying the law. The Chamber
successfully lobbied to kill the DISCLOSE Act, which would have closed the
loopholes opened by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
This leads to commercials like this:
This point should be repeated, constantly, until the
CCoC reveals donor identities...
You know your crazy uncle? Not the amusingly eccentric one, but the
magnetism-is-a-Commie-lie, I-can-smell-the-moon-people-with-my-mind,
full-throttle-with-afterburner-crazy one who it perpetually boiling-piss
infuriated about something?
Well apparently that uncle has joined something called the "Tea Party"
and, in their wisdom, the good Republicans citizens of Oregon's 4th
congressional district have chosen him to fight for their values and beliefs
against Democrat Peter DeFazio in the upcoming national election.
Did I mention that this was as nicely as possible?
Nevada State Sen. Bill Raggio, who is considered to be one of the most
influential Republican lawmakers in the Silver State, endorsed Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid in his reelection fight against GOP challenger Sharron Angle
on Thursday.
Raggio has served in the Nevada state legislature since 1972, and told
"Face-to-Face" host Jon Ralston this week that never in that long career had
he endorsed a Democrat. But given the caliber of his own party's nominee, he
said in a statement Thursday, that time has come.
"What is difficult to overlook is her record of being totally
ineffective as a four-term assemblywomen, her inability or unwillingness to
work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on
issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many
others," Raggio said of Angle.
Of course, it remains to be seen if enough Nevadans consider the need to grow
up as necessary for the U.S. Senate...
We journalists tend to cover politics the way we cover sports:
Republicans are gaining yardage on their immigration play! The Tea Party
is stealing second base! A bench-clearing brawl over health care! Look at the
politicians and pundits mud-wrestle!
So let’s try an experiment: Let’s treat this midterm election as if it
might actually profoundly shape the well-being of our country.
Whacky, as I said.
Or you could click on the reminder at the top-right of this page and plan
your vote this November.
Or are you hoping that
Jack
Weldon does your work for you?
Bonus! Nick includes one of my favorite Buffet quotes:
As Warren Buffett has said: “There’s class warfare,
all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re
winning.”
I have a sneaking suspicion we will find out if Boehner becomes the speaker:
American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist
To Push Interests In Congress
WASHINGTON—Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American
people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack
Weldon of the firm Patton Boggs to help advance their agenda in Congress.
Known among Beltway insiders for his ability to sway public policy on
behalf of massive corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, and AT&T,
Weldon, 53, is expected to use his vast network of political connections to
give his new client a voice in the legislative process.
Weldon is reportedly charging the American people $795 an hour.
Yes, it is
The Onion, of course. That didn't stop me from figuring out that a
nickel a year would almost be worth having a voice in our government.
I have also been known to argue physics in cartoons with my 11-year-old
nephew.
Because if you happen to read this, I want you to be sure of what voting
information you need. Each individual post until the day comes will have
an animated gif in the header with a link to
VoteSmart.org.
It's about the handiest place for voter information that I've found and I'm
somewhat ashamed that I didn't find it earlier.
As tempting as it may be for them, I can't imagine too many of the swine
leaving with their piles of money. What good would it be to be the biggest
accumulator of linen paper and numbers where the cannot consume as conspicuously
as possible?
Of course, it's fun to imagine where they would end up if
Reich is right:
Two weeks ago, after the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (a
global financial regulatory oversight body) came up with a new set of rules to
toughen bank capital and liquidity requirements, European officials threatened
to get even tougher. They approved a new system of European regulatory bodies
with added powers to ban certain financial products or activities in times of
market stress.
This prompted Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, to issue - in the
words of the Financial Times - "a clear warning that the bank could shift its
operations around the world if the regulatory crackdown becomes too tough."
Blankfein told a European financial conference that while Europe remains
of vital importance to Goldman (with less than half of the bank's business now
generated in the U.S.), the introduction of "mismatched regulation" across
different regions would tempt banks to search out the cheapest and least
intrusive jurisdiction in which to operate.
"Operations can be moved globally and capital can be accessed globally,"
he said.
So the race to the bottom is now official. Wall Street will set up
its casino wherever financial gambling is least regulated.
The obvious initial answer is
Somalia. With Blackwater or Xe or whatever they're calling themselves
now providing the most inhumane cover possible for their masters.
Another option would be even more ironic - Russia. Within 10 years, we
could be back in our comfortably terrifying bipolar world...actually at 'war'
with the financial giants of the earth.
I had already found
Bob's column
for today and @johncusack's tweet
reminded me that everyone needs to see it.
And I need to apologize in advance for some massive lifting of Mr. Herbert's
column, but it's necessary to show the depths of the possible future Speaker:
It’s beyond astonishing to me that John Boehner has a real chance to be
speaker of the House of Representatives.
I’ve always thought of Mr. Boehner as one of the especially sleazy
figures in a capital seething with sleaze. I remember writing about that day
back in the mid-’90s when this slick, chain-smoking, quintessential
influence-peddler decided to play Santa Claus by handing out checks from
tobacco lobbyists to fellow Congressional sleazes right on the floor of the
House.
It was incredible, even to some Republicans. The House was in session,
and here was a congressman actually distributing money on the floor. Other,
more serious, representatives were engaged in debates that day on such matters
as financing for foreign operations and a proposed amendment to the
Constitution to outlaw desecration of the flag. Mr. Boehner was busy
desecrating the House itself by doing the bidding of big tobacco.
Embarrassed members of the G.O.P. tried to hush up the matter, but I got
a tip and called Mr. Boehner’s office. His chief of staff, Barry Jackson, was
hardly contrite. “They were contributions from tobacco P.A.C.’s,” he said.
When I asked why the congressman would hand the money out on the floor
of the House, Mr. Jackson’s answer seemed an echo of Willie Sutton’s
observation about banks. “The floor,” he said, “is where the members meet with
each other.”
Mr. Boehner is the minority leader in the House and would most likely
become speaker if the Republicans win control in next month’s elections. He
has stopped funneling corporate money to his colleagues on the House floor.
(It is now illegal.) But nothing else has changed, except that his already
outsized influence-peddling has grown. The amount of democracy-destroying
money that manages to make its way into the sleazy environs of what is now
known as Boehner Land has increased to a staggering degree.
The Times’s Eric Lipton, in an article last month, noted that Mr.
Boehner “maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former
aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman
Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R.J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.
“They have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his
campaigns, provided him with rides on their corporate jets, socialized with
him at luxury golf resorts and waterfront bashes and are now leading
fund-raising efforts for his Boehner for Speaker campaign, which is soliciting
checks of up to $37,800 each, the maximum allowed.”
The hack who once handed out checks on the House floor is now a coddled,
gilded flunky of the nation’s big-time corporate elite.
*
The U.S. is in terrible shape right now because far too much
influence has been ceded to the financial and corporate elites who have used
that influence to game the system and reap rewards that are almost
unimaginable. Ordinary working Americans have been left far behind, gasping
and on their knees.
John Boehner has been one of the leaders of the army of enablers
responsible for this abominable state of affairs.
We used to wonder What's wrong with Kansas? and the FSM knows that we
never really got an answer to that, but that's in the past for me.
The new question for the day is What's wrong with Ohio?
Did you know that Rand Paul supports a $2,000 deductible for Medicare?
You should:
Of course, you can't get him to admit that now that he's on the campaign
trail. In fact, he claims to have never said it. That
would be Rand Paul lying.
A progressive Senator accused the Republican Party of putting their
drive for power ahead of the public interest, saying this morning that the GOP
chooses to obstruct legislation aimed at creating jobs in their bid to regain
power in Congress.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., also said President Obama, who has suffered
in many polls from a seeming inability to make headway on the economy, is
facing a more extreme form of political opposition than he'd ever seen.
"I think in his heart the president is a very, very decent guy; he wants
to do what most Americans want him to do: To reach out, bring people
together," Sanders said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"But what has happened is the Republicans have said 'no, no, no.' They
have waged more filibusters than any time in the history of this country. They
have been the party of 'no' and obstructionism. At some point, what the
president has got to understand [is] they do not want America to succeed.
They're into politics."
To say the least.
I know that my view is limited on the subject, but it seems simple to me: Who
has the money to make it through periods of low job growth and stagnant wages?
My guess is the people with enough money in the system already.
I could be wrong, of course, but I don't think I am...
If you happened to be paying attention to
Doonesbury way back
when, you could have begun to sense the disillusion he felt with the
Gipper's Voodoo
Economics:
