What Kevin the troll (first post) doesn’t understand, is that this country is a representative republic, as set out by the Constitutional framers. As such, it could practice any economic structure as determined by those who represent us, be it capitalism or socialism, regulated or not regulated.

Currently, we have a highly unregulated, subsidy-driven form of capitalism. As it just so happens, highly unregulated capitalism in a free society, where the courts have ruled that money = free speech, gives us a political system that rewards industries that feed the political system more money… eventually every aspect of the society becomes polluted by money. Those with the most money have the most free speech, and the ability to use it to their advantage.

But Kevin the troll is too stupid to know this because these same corporations have done all in their power to steal the public infrastructure real Americans paid for, consequently destroying everything they touch… like the sorry ass-school that failed to teach him a single thing about civics. I’m skipping steps here, but Kevin the troll was just doing a “hit and run” posting maneuver and will never revisit these posts to challenge how theft leads to destruction even though a first grader can figure it out (school or no school).

So Kevin the troll, Kevin the embracer of willful ignorance, poster of tired and banal exercises in the Socratic method, low-brau goon of the neofascists and private in the keyboard komandos, can bite my liberal, fly-over state funding white ass. He can move right the fuck out of MY country.

a. Earrings lost by tourists.
b. Undeveloped film borrowed from the few remaining film photogs.
c. Small ingots dropped at the site by one’s left hand, recovered from the ground by the right hand. About 100 g should do just fine.

I doubt if the keepsake entrepreneurs had the wherewithal or contacts to get the element from the ruins and remains of the WTC site or the associated hospitals, morgues, or crematoriums.

But I agree with the Merikun who sed all you freedom-hatin’, brown-person-lovin’, tairist sympathizers can stuff yer tofu-fryin’ asses into yer Subarus and get back to Madison.

But “capitalism”, if not performed in reasonable moderation (much like religion, alcohol, certain medications, etc.) can turn into a detriment.

And because it has NOT been taken in moderation, it has produced folks like these who made this coin.

And as a result, a minority of Americans who live-and-breath this form of “capitalism”, would slit their own mothers’ throats, if it meant a quick buck.

Just an observation.

I second what “New York” says. California and New York are where most of the nations wealthy and highly educated people live. Throw-in New England, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Portland, Seattle, Miami, parts of New Mexico, Austin, and Dallas, and that might just about cover everyone who has big paychecks.

I always thought that New York, New England, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada should group together to call themselves Atlantica. It would be a big blue country.