a CNN guest, a professor who has been studying Wall street for 10 years answering to the question, "Didn't anyone see this coming?" said: Not only did Wall Street see it coming but emails were flying around two years ago saying things like, "You better hope you are retired and living overseas when the S__ hits the fan because this shell game can't go on forever.

Apparently some of the deliberately opaque financial machination were designed by mathematicians and physicist and were so complicated that no one understood how they worked. They did know that they were playing in a dangerous game- building a house of cards that could be brought down by the slightest of breezes.

Remember the arrogance of Enron and their corporate culture of "survival of the fittest". It had no heart, no humanity and no pity. I am a Republican and for the third presidential election in a row, I am voting for Ralph Nader because he is the only candidate who understands that the "Corporation" is a financial robot designed to have the legal rights of a human being but not the legal responsibilities. It can grow to any size, abuse any number of people and can acquire any amount of wealth and it can never be punished. If you want proof, just ask yourself where the 700 million is going. We have created financial robots that are ruling this country when what we need are co-ops, associations, community, charity, and unions. In the movie War Games, the technical robots take over because the defense of the country was too complicated for mere mortals. Just use that metaphor when you think about what is happening today in our Financial War Games and you will see the problem.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein