Ray from what you say it is capitalism and the so called free enterprise system that has failed. JFI we are no different from you...well maybe a tad more left wing but not that much to notice a difference.

It is not the welfare and food stamps that has caused the world chaos but unscrupulous big business and venture capitalists who have brought all our countries to their knees. In our country billions have been lost to tax avoidance and creative accountancy. Now we all have to pull in our belts to bail these blood suckers out. If only a fraction of the proper taxes were paid by these conglomerates then things would be almost back to normal. The penny pinching measures we all have to bear PALE into insignificance compared to how much money we are owed by those greedy hapless parasites.