Water is one of the most valuable commodities on the planet, as people are going to discover in the very near future when the water wars begin. Most people can last a month without food [American a bit longer]. but try going without water for a few days.

When the nation’s economy is tied as closely to the financial sector, as the US economy is these days, nothing good will come of it. You have to create something to survive.

== Badtux the Capitalist Penguin

Any similarity between capitalism and the current system is merely rhetorical. Surely no one actually believes that risk and competition are good things … 😉

I don’t think I’ll get married again; I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
— LEWIS GRIZZARD, attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

(OK.. Maybe not totally appropriate 😉 but I like it. How about these?)

Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.
— RAGHURAM G. RAJAN, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
— BERTRAND RUSSELL, “Freedom in Society”

Actually, I’ve usually found that quotes about street hookers and their pimps are far more appropriate for Capitalists and their masters. 😈

We should at least get a video game out of it, Ellroon 😈

No wonder corporations hate accountability and regulations… they won’t make any money that way.

Boeing?! Of all the stupid political tricks, what in hell does Boeing know about surveillance electronics and sensors?

Boots on the ground with local knowledge and contacts. Start some Border Patrol cavalry regiments with the wild horses they are always trying to wipe out and build a series of substations along the border. If you want to seal it, that is what it is going to take – patrols at random intervals along the border with reliable communications links for back-up.

But Bryan… then it wouldn’t be a private-sector solution to the problem. You’d be paying government agents… what you’re saying is heresy! I know private sector solutions are always better; the Tea Party and the GOP both told me so. %-}