Great conversation everyone.

My comment was to Christy, who obviously felt she had to defend her approach in keeping people on topic. (There was an implication in your post—maybe unintended—that I might have bristled at as well).

I was simply trying to show my appreciation for the amazing job she does. No interest in a pie fight on my side. Peace.

I wanted you for Secretary of Treasury. Were you ever contacted by the Obama team for consideration? Why did they opt for old failures when they could have asked the world’s best?

I am a child of the Big Depression. I fear that it will soon become painfully evident to all that there is a wide gulf between theory and reality.

I think the Dept. of Agriculture should be in action right now to relieve the hunger already spreading in America. Without the “commodities” of my childhood I would not have lived to adulthood. (flour, corn meal, canned milk, lard, beans, rice, raisins, canned vegetables, etc). Unemployment is growing at a staggering rate.

During the Depression many families lived in the caves west of Austin, TX. No jobs, no money to pay rent, water and electricity bills. They lived on commodities, hunting game and fishing in the nearby rivers and creeks.

We should get out of NAFTA, re-tool our textile mills, shoe factories, garment factories, in short all the products we used to produce. Spend the billions on that, not rewarding the crooks of Wall Street for their gambling degts.