Economics is a way of keeping score.
Economics is the way we are able to feed ourselves.
Economics is the engine that drives history.
The quest for quantitative gain, either in wealth or sustenance has been the propellant for most wars, the march of invading armies, and the annexation of neighbors lands.
Economics is the fuel which drives society.
From the beginning of human history, people banded together first in clans, and ultimately in tribes and later nations, all with the original need to feed and protect.
To control the source of food and to allocate its distribution was an economic power that could decided life and death.
As society evolved, the symbiotic relationship economics and history strengthened.
Today, the state of our economy has once again devolved to a more basic level. The days of indiscriminate spending on increasingly absurd possessions are fast disappearing.
Now we have turned into a dependent society.
We expect to be taken care of,,
Thank god for Obama and his Progressive minions.
Our needs are no longer our responsibility.
Pay my heating bills.
Buy my food.
Provide my health care.
Subsidize my rent.
Pay me not to work.
Life is good.
Life is easy
etal……