I am new to this forum, an I have to say I am a bit perplexed that there isn't much discussion of economics and monetary policy that I've seen. Unfortunately, we are working on a crash. The value of the dollar is continually decreasing, which hurts the middle class and makes the rich richer. Our Federal reserve banking system almost guarantees that the banks will forever own the means of economic production. Government spending continually increases which can only end in inflation (which always benefits the bankers and the rich), and will require that the poor continually fund more and more sovereign debt. NAFTA an GATT have been successful at nothing except moving American jobs overseas. You tell me where America went wrong?

I think you'll se some economic discussion, and your views are pretty close to the mainstream around here.

You might also want to check out the Democratic Socialists forum.

perhaps you'll find more of the discussion of economics that you seek there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1116

Labor goes first. Then Pensions. Then Social Security IOUs. Then workers at facist businesses. Then stockholders. They too are derailed by their hirees and banksters. Its like a song, Take the Money and Run, like rats jumping ship. And it all came tumbling down.