For those wishing a mini-tutorial on economics, as this chap sorely needs, I highly recommend these Dr. Walter Williams (George Mason University) lessons: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/misc/econcitizen/index.html There are ten lessons, about 700 words each. Thomas Sowell at http://www.tsowell.com/ is equally recommended. "The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false." --Paul Johnson