Dickieboy, again, my apologies. Simply can`t understand when any less than very right wing to ultra-right wing views are expressed the opinion seems to be "There`s a commie behind and under EVERY rock !" For GAWD`s sake, except for North Korea and Cuba, there AREN`T any REAL LIFE Stalinist "commie pinko fags' LEFT anymore. Ronald Reagan and the West WON that 1, and am proud to say we did it with a free market (capitalist) system. Seems so many persons say "OH! We CAN`T AFFORD a nat`l health system." "Oh, my company is drowning in Gov`t regulations and I`ll have to go to India or El Salvador." "Oh, we CAN`T DO anything about Wall Street because we NEED them so much' "Oh! We can`t just agree on ANYTHING that will ACTUALLY BETTER the lives of those who ELECTED us to Washington (but we CAN take campaign contributions from ANY and EVERYONE and will probabily sell our vote to the HIGHEST bidder.) Dickieboy, what`s your view on how to "FIX" this mess LONG TERM? Personally, would start with making "lobbying " and corperate campaign contributions ILLEGAL, and reinforce the Wall Street regulations with DRACONIAN "penalties ie MANDATORY PRISON SENTENCES. And throw in the long put off "line item VETO" for good measure.