Very true. I went to school in DC, and lived there off and on after school. I still have friends there with whom I don't talk politics. Good call- "building an economy" says it all. 

siggy47

Excellent analysis 

NGO are money laundering operations like some charities. 

How can we convince people to accept higher prices?

Elitist cunts 

Bell_curve

econ

Seeing The US Economy Through A Liberal's Eyes

I unfortunately know a lot of people in the DC Bubble.

You just get inundated with yuppie bullshit. Pretty much everyone there is making 200k+ doing some fake government/NGO job and they're really proud of it and think it makes them better than you.

My favorite line from your quotes is this:
>“What are we doing here if we’re not building an economy that people like?”

Think about the immense about of hubris tacit in this one sentence. We are _building_ the economy. We're not participating in it. We're not contributing to it. We're _building_ it from our central plan.