[my response to a local station's reporting about Congress' bickering over the "debt ceiling."] This is like watching ants in a sandbox with a magnifying glass WHILE BOMBS DROP AROUND YOU ! ! ! The ACTUAL 'money creation' system is FATALLY flawed, unsustainable, mathematically inhumane YET IT NEVER GETS REPORTED ON ! ! ! The 'arguments' presented here in this article don't amount to SQUAT re: the solution to a flawed system. People know this to different degrees and yet it never gets covered. I got on the e-mail list of WILX for local news purposes. Do some real reporting and I'd consider turning the TV back on and getting a newspaper, but, alas. Many U.S. elections were MAINLY about this long fought issue of money creation power! 1892 & 1896 and in the depression are recent examples when this was in the public discourse. In short, a sovereign nation's money has been (and can be again) circulated WITHOUT DEBT. A good poker game needs JUST ENOUGH chips to play. DITTO for a good money system. "If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill..." Edison (search it)