This has been a tough year, a disappointing year...

I was reading about the run-up to the Great Depression, how things were dealt-with in prior recessions and depressions and what was done differently following the '29 episode, and thought "Geez, what was wrong with those people, don't they see what they were doing to themselves?". And as I watch WWII movies and documentaries, I'd say "Geez, what was wrong with those people, don't they see what they were doing to themselves?".

I figured "Hey, we are so much smarter than that now and mistakes are to be learned from and we'll never do THAT again". Well, I was wrong. Not just that we don't learn from our mistakes, but that many people knew we were screwing-up then and many see it now too.

There were many times that humanity could have gone terribly wrong at other times in our history and we were blessed with leaders that lead us out of trouble. Having leaders that are the right persons for the right times is such a crapshoot. It doesn't look like we've got much luck going for us with this crop of  "leaders" we've put in charge. So, after we get through the meltdown that's coming, here is my idea about how we fund whatever is left.... The Simple, Fair & Flat Tax:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJL7rBd_3o

Will there even be a November election?

Some of these kooks at Occupy Wall Street are saying that they plan on disrupting the 2012 elections.

Romney, Santorum, Gingrich or Paul? It may not even matter, if we go Greek and have violent protests this Summer and Fall, it is possible that the Federal Elections will be "indefinitely postponed", if not cancelled. I sure hope my intuition is wrong that this is a setup and was in the planning for a while already.

UPDATE: We had the elections with no major disruptions, in fact the huge protests that were planned for the Democrat and Republican Conventions flopped, both the weather and loss of enthusiasm for OWS quieted things down.