“Anyone telling you that American capitalism is an economic system is dead wrong. American capitalism is only the economic face of a value system of morals and ethics, traditionally underpinned by religion. … Undercut these values and the final result is Lehman Brothers and AIG, the twisted faces of Representative Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd, of Fannie and Freddie pursuing give-a-way socialism with a capitalist face, and at last, a value vacuum so large that the Treasury Department is welcomed with applause (and votes) as it mounts a bloodless economic coup d’etat for which the American middle classes will be paying for generations. … The people could tumble this rotten edifice any time at the ballot box, but based on the ‘what-have-you-done-for-me-lately?’ nature of some questions at last night’s debate, it’s not likely that we will.” [editor’s note: The other aspect of “greatest days” has to do with a return(?) to the trade-based republic focused on individual sovereignty our founders had in mind … instead of the oppressive, nation-building, corporatist global empire we’re now saddled with! - SAT] (10/08/08)