The Anti-Manichaeist

My presentation in NYC went well.  It took me 9 hours to get home finally because of the severe snow/sleet in MN yesterday, but I got home safe and sound.

It wasn’t the biggest or the most influential audience, but I had an outline of my paper that I presented from and it was more or less understood by them that the basic idea was to grow the Social Security Trust Fund with a public mutual fund that would operate like an index fund with low overhead and turnover.

On my way to the conference and back, I shared my idea with others and they were amazed that Social Security could be saved.  They were largely resigned to the idea that it was going to go bankrupt when the baby boom generation retires.

I made two notable discoveries: 1.  A new book is coming out titled “Challenger Revealed” that tells the story of whistle-blower Richard Cook and how the Reagan Administration was responsible for the Challenger explosion. 2. There is a comic book titled DMZ by Brian Wood that describes urban war like what exists in Iraq but set in New York City.  I’d really like to get a copy of that.  I am becoming more and more convinced that we truly need a week of fasting and mourning in the US over what we have wrought in Iraq.

We live in a time of exciting changes.  Let’s hope my idea gets more circulation and that it helps me out with my prospects for next year along the way…

dlw