Bailout better spent

Stephen Flynn’s book The Edge of Disaster he make the case for improvements to our infrastructure as a matter of national security and resilience to natural disasters. The examples highlighted in the book point to very serious problem that we are in denial about.

Direction?

I have been reading the Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt and it could be that this all is just another step in becoming what he calls a Market-State vice a Nation-State. Now I haven’t finished the book yet (about 2/3 complete) but I can recommend it as a possible reading of the past and a direction to the future. The current events to me would be a reason to breakdown this divide between Government and Business, but not along what has gone on in the past but a new order that is in line with the Constitution.

Market-state

The country as a whole frakked things up, saved little, spent wildly, ran around talking shit and now we have the bill. It doesn't help when we can't decide who and what we are going to be and how we should go forward. We are going to have to pay and work to find direction as a nation. It not just the accounting rules that need to be changed, but a redirect of the country and culture.