Be sure to read the comments. Priceless. Not much comfort, though, for us stuck in Califoolya.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/13/California-cap-and-trade
Nina,
Things will continue in this direction, until those who can organize things differently DO organize things differently.
I think your idea of using economic literacy as a nexus is brilliant.
Mike gave me Justin Raimondo's e-mail. He may be able to help me to reassemble the remnants of Burt Blummert's network that created the Von Mises Institute. As soon as that comes together, we will have more heavy-hitters swinging the bat with us.
From that footing, we can begin to see how to align our allies to the nexus.
Nobody can make credible complaints about economic literacy.
And ultimately, this illiteracy is at the root of the maladaptive political directions.
A parallel of agricultural literacy that launched countries on their way to the "first world", would explain how starving and broke are related at this level. We can NEVER expect democratic political solutions to make any sense so long as the electorate is illiterate in the subject of the solutions.
John