To solve budget problems, raise taxes on the rich and the corporations.

[Octafish]

8. That article is oustanding! I had no idea...

...of how the two sides operate. Giving the process a basis for rational analysis makes the game visible and understandable. We the People have been getting the shaft from the BFEE Banksters and their toadies in Washington too long. The panic is setting in as they see the world is on to their crimes and treason.

The first reality, then, which the cooperative gene must acknowledge is that it is never going to persuade the competitive gene to cooperate towards the equitable creation of collective goods. The only strategy available, it seems, is for the cooperative gene to persuade itself that money is neither a commodity, nor is it scarce—that the narrative hammered out by the competitive gene is, at its very roots, a false and self-serving belief system that puts collective society itself at risk.

Thanks for the heads-up, PETRUS. I knew of NEP, Black, Galbraith, et al., but had no idea of the meaning of modern monetary policy. The article is one of the best explanations of anything I've ever read.