As the US heads toward debt default and continues with government shutdown, the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear to the American people or the world. The story that the press has generally been feeding us places the problem as basically a temporary one, caused by conflicts between the Democrats and Republicans. […]

via Our Finite World http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/10/14/two-views-of-our-current-economic-and-energy-crisis/