So basically the economy works by passing money through it, by working getting paid, paying your bills and using credit to get that which you need by leveraging your future work. Once you stop working, due to age, illness, or medical reasons, you no longer work and so do not make money, you only pay your bills with that which you have access to.That is if you are normal within this society. Now if you are rich you can make money in this same manner but there are more options. You can put money into places where it works for you. Where it is borrowed by others and interest is paid to you for being able to use it. You can also buy stocks, which are interests in a company giving you access to dividends the people of the company produce. You can buy bonds which are basically loans to a company that you get interest from. These last two methods use the fact that in a capitalist society money is used as a commodity and so can increase in both amount and worth. Now as long as the money is traveling from one person or company to another it increases the economy and supposedly the lifestyles of everyone. At least that is the theory. Every once in a while the economy has money taken about of it by the rich, this is done through taking profits out of a business, finding out that the investments one has made are not worth what they once were, or realizing that one is just paying to much for something that there is not a proper return on. This money is taken out of the economy and the amount of money flowing through the society shrinks. If it is just a small number of people taking money out then it is a downturn, if they take out a lot then it becomes a depression. The economy has over the past forty years been working so that more and more money can be taken out of the economy. This money has been held offshore and instead of making its way through the society it just stays in an offshore bank account so taxes do not have to be paid on it. During the last depression about fourteen trillion dollars was taken out of the economy. This is what caused the unemployment, the loss of homes, the forfeiture of property, the loss of jobs that will not come back, and the use of computerized machinery. I state this because there is another way this could operate. If we enabled the extra money that companies and individuals are just having sit there into a manner of bringing it back into the economy, we would not need the use of downturns in the economy to happen. If we allowed for jobs to actually pay what they are worth then everyone would have enough to pay their bills. I think the Constitution holds for how this could happen as it states that "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." I take this to mean that everyone owns the land and resources within the United States. We, the actual people of the US have through their representatives allowed companies and corporations to form that have as their purpose the development of the natural resources we all hold for our benefit. FOR OUR BENEFIT. How does this allow for the development of a society like wants where the "people" come to be defined by their wealth. Thus when Mitch says he is wanting to wait for the people to learn of something or come to the support of some cause he means those who are rich and have the ability to pay for service. Basically "We the People" have no say in the present working of the government and with the Orange Gas Bag in there as King, we have been handed our hats and the door has been opened for our passing. Thanks for the time and ability to put my rant into words. Thoughts?