I haven't been reading your stuff for a while because it was all long and ranting. This was good and pretty concise. You could take it up the ladder with sequels about the real costs of our medical system, food system, government system, etc....Stick to the numbers and a little less anti-American rhetoric: we know we're trapped in it. The question is what we are really dealing with (quantitatively) so we know where to point the bulldozers. In general, every crappy thing in America starts at a cash register, but also nearly all of the economically 'good' things do as well.

People need to know the difference, but all they see is "always low prices" and "no payments for a year!".