Your ´northener´ wires are showing, but I understand why it would feel personal to you.  It´s one more nail on the neocon-lib´s coffin and I´m glad you will be spreading the word because it has reached that personal insult level.  It is only when people are touched that closely, that the heat goes up on the elites and things begin to change.

Economics has become a psychophant "science" for the elites and I think/hope the public tunes it out because they make it more complicated than it is and then contradict themselves anyway.

Turn up the heat on ´em!

P.S.  I recognize (the abandoned Gates Rubber plant and) the light rail in Denver:  I tried to budget that bugger in the early 80s, during the conception, debate and feasibility studies.  At least we were able to build a good bus infrastructure well before the locals would even consider using it.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.