Comment Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score 1) 552
We are a little different from the Soviets. You should think more of Russia, not the USSR. Russia is still there. The Soviet system could never have survived, even if it functioned "perfectly".
The US system works very well, when you let it.
The illusions I speak of... I'm talking about things like spending $15 when we have $10, and that sort of thing. That simply doesn't work, and eventually it will correct. It can do so without dooming us, and the less we screw with these corrections the less severe they'll be.
We have tried various things which simply don't work, and most of them we should have known it would not work, but we aren't doomed in any guaranteed sense.