House of Cards

I've felt for a long time that our entire economic system was built on a house of cards--that's sitting on sand. Things don't grow forever, they just don't. And we've been trained to not save enough in order to have the latest stuff. I think Thomas Friedman of the NY Times has a similar point of view, and he focuses on the environmental angle of this house of cards...on the beach (oh! oh! Next to the surfline at mid-tide! Yeah, that's good...).