staking out positions

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The Rs have said that they want to revise medicare for those born after 1955.
O has delighted the left with his position defending the welfare state. Pretending that it can be done without hurting the middle class and elderly.

I am in the unhappy position of agreeing with the left about goals and with the right that it is time to quit pretending because something serious must be done.

Meanwhile Warren Buffet, whose credibility is somewhat higher than mine, says:

"If you ask me if the US dollar is going to hold its purchasing power fully at the level of 2011, 5 years, 10 years or 20 years from now, I would tell you it will not.”

and please notice the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have agreed that we need a new international monetary reserve system. The world's confidence in the dollar is sinking. When it sinks our interest rates are going through the roof.

If we do not act soon it will go up in smoke.