Craig, I can't tell just what your last post is saying. I don't know anything about the reference to California. My point about Teddy Roosevelt was just to say that, like him, I believe our politics and economy are under the thumb of an out-of control group of wealthy individuals and big corporations. Democracy has been high-jacked. I try to say here quite exactly what I mean, but you often seem to impute ideas to me that I don't hold and never stated. You seem to have taken the passage above entirely out of context though I'm sure you meant no offence.

Bill Ferguson