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You're still operating in a fantasy world where the "children" somehow loosen the reins long enough for you to implement your principle of personal liberty. I'

You're still operating in a fantasy world where the "children" somehow loosen the reins long enough for you to implement your principle of personal liberty. I'm a lot more optimistic about concrete plans to make things better that folks from all over the political spectrum can support: http://www.americanselect.org/ http://www.americanselect.org/ If you really think the system is going to collapse, you could make money by buying put options on U.S. Treasury bills. Done at scale, this could potentially affect the system a lot more than complaining on Internet forums... http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money See sections on shorting and options.

crusso 15y ago
>You're still operating in a fantasy world where the "children" somehow loosen the reins[...] Who said that I thought they would? America seems to have slipped into a "vote myself more stuff" mode of democracy that will send us the way of Greece. There are a few politicians like Jim DeMint who seem to vote against their own political power by trying to cut the size of the budget. People like him are worth voting for, but they're pretty few and far between. I like the americanselect site. I'll have to peruse it more. > If you really think the system is going to collapse[...] It seems like collapse is the way we're headed (http://usdebtclock.org/ http://usdebtclock.org/), but we could still be decades away from it. I'm sure I'd lose my shirt playing with something as near-term as puts on T-bills. I view it as a much better use of my time to work within my own profession so that I can put away enough money and to diversify my holdings. Sitting around betting on the collapse of the US would be a less wise use of my time.