
October 5, 2008
“Madam Speaker, this is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it, and I’m not going to eat that cow patty.” - GA Congressman Paul Broun
With Congress’ unconstitutional decision to exact collective punishment on us all by using nearly one trillion U.S. tax dollars to engulf our entire nation in the bad debt of a few, we may still call ourselves America, but this is surely no longer the land of the Free, nor the Home of the Brave. It is the land of monstrous, tyrannical, socialist government that cares nothing for the backbone of this nation; the middle class. We are slowly being suffocated to death under a pile of ever-increasing debt and are now being held hostage by thugs on Wall Street and within our own government whose collusion created this abomination.
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September 28, 2008
“Can’t we just all go out there and say everything’s OK?” - President Bush during contentious negotiations over his 700 billion dollar corporate welfare program
I make a comfortable living exposing defects in the work products of others. It matters not whether it be a system of integrated software components, a supply chain, transportation system or electrical grid; the search for defects in processes or their physical implementation that result in the failure of major systems must always start at the failure itself and work backwards until the root cause(s) can be found.
Most major disasters cannot be traced to a single point of failure. Rather they are the result of a combination of factors. Generally speaking, if any one of those factors is removed from the equation, the disaster becomes a near-miss. But the fact remains, every disaster is dependent upon one or more root causes that often involve human intervention. And many disasters turn out to be completely avoidable.
The root cause of our current economic woes can be summed in one, single word:
Greed
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