Umm, the intelligence community is somehow responsible for the widespread use of cell phones, rather than the extreme utility of the phones themselves? Are we talking about the same "intelligence community" responsible for the Bay of Pigs, the intel on Iraq WMDs, and the propping up of the...
I have to say that I'm in agreement here. I think that the world economy needs a day of reckoning, even if it's painful. We simply can't keep doing what we've been doing and expect anything to change.