Since I've been gone....
Much has happened since I've been gone. Not least of all with politics and my views on politics and economics. I was (and in a way remain) libertarian. I first registered as a Libertarian when I moved to Delaware in the late 90's. I think it had a lot to do with my views on liberty and dissatisfaction with the state of the Republican party which was my previous political home. I firmly believed that greed was a more powerful force than almost everything else and pursuing that greed would lead to people, companies and even countries to put aside their petty squabbling and all go along to get along. We'd be able to farm out our basic manufacturing (or undesirable manufacturing) to developing nations. They'd be fat, dumb and happy. Making money would make them comfortable and prosperous and it would usher in a new age of trade and peace. I could not have been more wrong. As we've seen with Hollywood and Silicon Valley, they are very willing, even e