The Last Bass Outpost

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FWIW

Interested parties can find the whole album here:

http://www.emusic.com/album/Melungeons-Blackwater-Swamp-MP3-Download/11885173.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ESUPGO/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1270126404&sr=8-5

iTunes should follow shortly.

And don't expect that government will step in and develop new drugs.  They can't even run the Post Office or Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac without billion dollar losses.

No one expects the gubmint to make their pills for them. The fact of the matter is that drug companies make enormous profits and exaggerate their development costs whenever questioned for them. Their layoffs were profit-shoring, not survival, actions. Check the stock price of any of those companies.

As to the Post Office and Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac, you just provided fine examples of the problems of private enterprise underwritten, but very loosely overseen by the government; neither entity is under direct federal control. Had their loans been more closely scrutinized, Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac would have not have gotten into the mess they were in, but they followed the market instead of leading it and US taxpayers footed the bill. The Post Office is in a unique situation brought on more by an evolving market and slow response to challenges such as e-communication. UPS and FedEx also had tough years, but they have much more flexibility to innovate and as such, are doing fine. The Post Office is too monolithic to alter its practices that fast, though it should have forseen most of them and planned ahead.
 
Instead of making a case against government management, you just made a very strong one FOR it.

Just to put things in perspective in the order of profitability, not necessarily overall revenue, the top three in the US are as follows: pharmaceuticals, oil, and financial services. See a pattern?

 BTW, in regards to the US leaving its agrarian past behind prior to FDR, before WWII, 80% of the country lived on farms.

Edit: one day I may learn to type and spell properly

Doh!!

I want to hear more...

As soon it posts there, the whole album has been uploaded to iTunes and a number of other online outlets.

From time to time on here, I have mentioned some recording work I have been doing with some friends of mine who are in a popular local band that had never done a studio recording until now. Now, the album is finished and I'm curious as to what you guys might think of the music and production, so here's a link to the band's Myspace page with a sample, the album's title track: http://www.myspace.com/melungeons

And, oh yeah, THEY OWN US.

...which is why they're less likely to back their beligerent "ally" against a US spanking. North Korea and China are tenuous neighbors at best, with the border being manned on the Korean side of the river with machine gun nests to gun down refuges escaping to the relative "freedom" of China. And besides, you don't kill your milk cow to make hamburgers. While I think Uwe is perhaps a bit too optimistic regarding a second Korean War's duration, it is well worth noting that they have not test fired any more missles in awhile.

along with domestic deficit spending that are completely unsustainable.

...only if it fails to perform as intended and does not prove a functional investment in revitalizing the US economy, which by all economic indicators, is not the case.  Thomas Jefferson made a very strong case FOR deficit spending that still holds true to this day: a nation indebted is a customer to be exploited, not an enemy to be conquered.

 The very same arguments levied against the current administration were offered up 70 years ago, too. And the 'horrible socialist' that was FDR brought this country out of an agrarian past into winning a world war and dominating the globe in finance, culture, and technology. No one stays on top forever, but if you're constantly looking over your shoulder out of insecurity, you're going to be tripped up by obstacles that would otherwise be easily avoided. My feeling is that since the staus quo is almost universally agreed to be broken, doing nothing, which, make no mistake, is the actual alternative, is the worse tack. It's about time America bet on itself again. The last time brought the world into the modern era.