the real shock comes when you think of a trillion put into highspeed rail, green grids etc, and then i put it together it's gone to be squatted on by people who are already ungodly rich, and don't give a rat's ass about the the environment, or us for that matter.

we're all just commodities, methinks, to them...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty