So that's how you spell it!

The spell checker said that I had it wrong, and I thought the reason I couldn't find it in my dictionary was because it's a French word. I was trying to spell it the way it's pronounced, but my high school French has gotten rusty over the years. Anyway, you're right, they don't really believe in it, they just use it to manipulate the rest of us. They suck!

When you say that the money never existed in the first place, you're right if you define money as currency. Only about 10% to 20% of the money in existence is represented by actual currency. The rest of it is just on paper, but it's money nevertheless. When money is pulled out of the U.S stock market, it doesn't cease to exist, it just goes somewhere else. It's kind of like the conservation of matter and/or energy, it never really goes away but, for our practical purposes, it might as well have because it is no longer available for our use.

That's also how all that carbon gets into the atmosphere. All the carbon that was ever on the planet is still there, it's just been changed into another state of being that is of no practical use to us. Green plants take carbon out of the atmosphere and use it to build plant tissue. Then when the plant dies, or sheds it's leaves, the decomposition process sequesters most of the carbon in the ground, although some of it does escape back into the atmosphere. Green plants get the energy to perform photosynthesis from sunlight, so why can't our carbon sucking machine get it's energy from the same source? Essentially, what I am proposing is a mechanical plant. Maybe we would be further ahead to just nurture more natural plant life on the planet, although I don't know where we would put it. Most of the land that is capable of supporting plant life already is.

Water and temperature are the primary limiting factors to plant growth. There's lots of water on the oceans, but it's salt water. Of course there are plants that thrive in salt water, so maybe that's where we need to apply our efforts. Come to think of it, I read somewhere that most of the photosynthesis actually happens in the oceans as it is. You might not think so because the oceans don't appear to have a lot of plants in them. That's because most of the plant life in the ocean consists of plankton, which is kind of hard to see with the naked eye. I don't know how much more plankton the oceans can support, but I'm sure that increasing the temperature would help increase their capacity. Land based plants also grow faster when it's warmer, so maybe this global warming thing will solve itself. I wonder if anybody else has thought of this. Maybe that's why they quit calling it "global warming" and started calling it "climate change". That way, whatever happens to the climate, they can say "I told you so!"

General Motors did indeed go bankrupt. It used to be that, when a company went bankrupt, they went out of business but, now a days, they just weasel out of their debts and keep right on operating. In GM's case, they invalidated all the existing shares of their stock and issued new shares, much of which ended up being owned by the federal government. They said they were planning to sell it to the public when the market improved. Well. the market has improved, but I haven't heard anything about the government selling their GM stock. Maybe they've done it and I just haven't heard about it. Have you heard anything about that?