Vito wrote:

My recollection of the period differes from yours - or perhaps you are just
repeating the BS you were told.

Michael is basically a good person, but he's disadvantaged... his head has been
stuffed with all sorts of nonsense and plain facts can't get in. For example, he
is absolutely positive that the New Deal "didn't work," that nobody was killed
in Kosovo, that the Federal Reserve creates U.S. gov't debt, etc etc.

It's sort of like that old story of the Zen master who kept pouring after the
cup was full. But he does talk sailing and that's a good thing.

DSK