https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/28-3#.TlxE0tnZ3cM.facebook the above Common dreams shows how the banking bailouts were in excess of $16 Trillion which could have bought a sustainable, off the grid, opensource home called an earthship, for every family in America http://www.earthship.org/ Earthships, cost about $100,000 i think w may have mis-spent that $14+Trillion of our national debt also, for instead of it being spent on foreign wars & such, it could have been spent to give an earhship to every family in America or retrofitting existing homes to get them off the grid, sustainable, & into an opensource society. These homes/retrofitting's, each could come with water filtration, food creation, energy generation (solar/wind) & a reprap. http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.reprapcentral.com/ China, Idaho, & sustainable cities http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/china-wants-to-construct-a-50-square-mile-self-sustaining-city-south-of-boise-idaho This is America's karma, for all those McDonalds & Military Bases, in foreign countries, come back to say "Hi!' America could be living in http://thevenusproject.com/ 's Resource Based Econemy, right now, were it not for the "noble" lies of profit & greed. Or maybe we should spend the next few decades catching up to China? or maybe not http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/The-future-that-Humanity-Deserves/