WHAT READERS SAY
Franz,
I awoke very early this morning, made some coffee, and upon perusing your website, reading the excerpts from your book, I found a typo. In the last sentence of the third paragraph of the excerpt from Chapter 9, it says this:
I'm referring to the looming problems with the lending practices of the credit card industry, your fears about our country's staggering increase in foreign debts, the spiraling out of control imbalance of trade, and the complete absence of a plan for paying down our mind-boggling national dept.
Obviously, that last word should be "debt".
Interesting that you published King Max in September (and wrote it some time before that) and, somewhat accurately it would seem, predicted the impending implosion of the credit and banking markets, although you focused on the credit card polices instead of the mortgage lending mess. Does Max take on Wall Street?
I'm not sure that our political views on some of the major issues are completely aligned, but I do agree with you that things are in such a mess that neither of our major political parties, beholden as they are to special interests who keep them loyal by controlling their financing and supporting their re-election campaigns, are capable of cleaning it up. It might be a "King Max" type of individual with vision who could lead us out of the morass, but would we be able to heed the warnings and rise to the occasion? With a corrupt media supported by equally corrupt special interest lobbying preventing dissent from opposing views to theirs from being fairly represented, it's hard to believe that Max would get heard loudly enough to sway an electorate.
Our 3-branch legislative/executive/judicial system of government is cumbersome and appears at times to be largely dysfunctional, but it's what we must work with, and it's, in my opinion, the best and fairest governmental system that's ever been devised in the history of civilization. We have to be careful that we don't unhinge it's system of checks and balances in the name of change.
Have you considered starting a Blog where you, as King Max, can engage in a dialog with those who consider themselves protagonists for issues either supported or opposed by Max?
Fred from Texas
www.kingmaxofamerica.blogspot.com
