There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.