I laid out some of the conservative position - no response from conservatives to the analysis.

Then I request some strsight answers to some straight questions that various people have put -another thundering silence.

Comparing vast bonuses with the starving of the U.S. and we're asked what the connection is supposed to be. I'll suggest one in a tick. Then comes the cracking, quality response, "It smacks of socialism." Wow. Brilliant. What a knockout blow.

I don't just say, "That's rather conservative" and leave it at that, I set out some of the conservative position and suggest a flaw. In other words,I try to be consrtuctive, discussion-wise.

Connections between obscene bonuses and poverty elsewhere.

1. More for one group (on a scale that I'd say NOBODY needs) must mean less for those in desperate need. After all, where do we think the money for those Wall Street bankers come from, apart from thin air.

2. It's not a Christian set-up , is it? What was that about giving to the poor, about not storing up riches in this world?

3. People with extraordinary wealth pay more at the top of each product pyramid, and at every level all the way down the pyramid, the sellers can say,"Prices have gone up on the level above, so we'll push ours up some more", the whole thing being like a reverse-domino effect. End result , more and more becomes beyond the reach of those at the bottom.

4. Is the desired end-game as we have in Brazil, say, with the rich behind walls, and the poor living in desperation on hillsides?


      Many have posted very specific points on the thread.

      They get ignored.

      What time does the dialogue start?


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