[david927]

Johnny Depp once said that he would like his children "to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out." This is what, we learn again, is what happens when you let greed be the highest goal. Americans are on the Pequod and its thirst for the white whale of financial gain has brought it inexorably to its ill-fated end.

There's a lot of focus on the Euro zone right now, for good reason, but the wealthiest countries in the world are all in Europe -- and they're doing fine. They're also all steeped in a tradition of social programs and tax structures to make sure that greed doesn't get the upper hand. It's no coincidence.

300 million won't leave America. Most can't. Try to move to, say, a European country as an American and you will be shown the door. Leaving isn't an option.

The only option is to affect political change: Eliminate Congress and move to a direct democracy; dilute the powers of the president. Take control again. It's simply ours for the taking. Simply stop the economy from working until these changes take place. Stop protesting -- asking for what's yours. Take it. Park in a busy intersection in your home town; stall at a toll booth. Take some friends and hold up the subway at rush hour, every day. Go on strike. Stop protesting and begging. Shut it down -- and they will beg you.

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You don't need 300 million to leave, you only need the 500,000 important ones to. A statistically significant percentage of those 500k will read this comment.