EEE, Well said. I was going to say: you took the words right out of my mouth, but yours were better. Keen observation.

I wanted to puke for two reasons: too many commercials, plus the talking heads that go on incessantly telling me what I just saw.

When television first came out, there were max four commercials an hour, every fifteen minutes. And you could watch a football game rather than listen to it.

Not only have commercials increased in number, but in time as well.

Capitalism run amuck is no less depersonalizing than Communism at its worst in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

Fareed Zakaria observed that we have a new category of neighborhood- forming in addition to race or religion, that of income level.

I see it here in Washington State, people moving out of Seattle because they just can't afford the high costs of living there. On the other hand people moving into Seattle because they can.

The country is lining up according to income level.

Another gall I have is to see The Bill Gates of the world's billionaire club having taken known technology to a logical conclusion, thinking they deserve the income that wouldn't be there were it not for past government and university financed research plus the efforts of many individuals including the Muslims who invented arithmetic.

They deserve much for the ingenuity they added, but $200 billion? And some have pledged to give half their wealth to just causes as a way, perhaps, to make their "larceny" more palatable to the rest of us.

And the recent tax relief for high income recipients took away the inheritance tax which was sort of a way to reimburse past efforts.

The young lady from New York, recently elected to the House, will get deserved attention for her tax proposal of 70 percent over $10 million income.

Before Reagan, it was as high as 94 Percent over $400,000.

In spite of it all, you and I can complain here to our hearts content--I love cliches--and not be taken out behind the woodshed and shot by Putin.

And we, and others like us, if we don't become discouraged or disillusioned by it all, can create change, making this country livable for all, both financially and culturally.

Ironically, using that giant brain we call the internet.