[Steve_A]

Hi Zarathustra,

I'm sorry to see such behaviour by the American government, however am not suprised. I live in a developing country and this sort of behaviour happens every day, using and abusing public money to help out, even for a short time, themselves (the politicians) or their friends.

But seriously, the writing was on the wall. I mean not in the popular press, but in the so called 'subversive' element of society. I mean the drop in the price of oil for example is not because of the reasons we can see published on Fox News. The reason for a drop in oil, they said, was that the damage from a hurricane was not so bad. I mean any damage must have a cost and so the logic is at least to keep the price steady until the damage has been repaired.

So I'm tending to lean towards Lindsey Williams' informed opinion (although I tend not to go as low as $50 a barrel) on the oil issue.

As for finance keep in touch with George Greens' comments. Although I'm not sure about the number of insiders he has, he certainly keeps up with the right media sources and has the right info at least a day or so before the mainstream and with this info he can make and indeed does some very accurate predictions.

As for government using my money, your money, I came to the conclusion that it makes up part of the game. I'm just going to keep my head low and in the meantime get back to the farm.

Best regards,

Steve