Being a self-employed 70-year old wool stocking prospector from wilderness Alaska, usually by the time I fully understand that latest “in” words from Wall Street as derivative, hedge, traunch —as in the London prime bank scheme the SEC just got around to issue a warning to miners about— has come and gone. Now, apparently through PAC supported spin-doctoring, there is yet another way for the bulls, the bears, and the hogs who have taken over America’s corporations to legally act as a monopoly to pick the pockets of Main Street Americans.

It is called “bailout!” Supposedly to protect those of us who have worked hard to be debt free— except for paying money out of pocket for just living. I don't mind paying my share to a government defending our freedoms, but I, on the supply side of developing a natural resource used everyday by all Americans, resent being beat-up by school playground bullies, ripping the shirt off my back, rubbing my face in the dirt— that lie to the principal over who started the scuffle, and then are rewarded because their Armani suits are so clean and tidy.

As a wilderness minority —more people live and vote in New York City, than all of Alaska— digging away at something as solid as silver, I truly do not understand how elected representatives have been so willing to dismantle all of the hard fought regulations protecting the majority of Americans from the consequences of greed. Wasn’t the SEC set up after the Crash of ’29 in part to prevent the buying of something as unproven as the silver ETF ('E' stands for empty) certificates from Britain's Barclay's Bank, being bought on the margin?

And what happened to the Sherman Antitrust Act (anti monopoly laws) set up to defend us from big oil trusts, when today the price of gasoline —thanks in part to ANWAR energy being voted down for environmental reasons— is really set from a programmed computer in Big Brother’s back office? And where was the very vocal Sierra Club when Exxon escaped paying the punitive part of an Alaskan jury’s concern over the failure of small businesses dependent on a pristine environment in our front yard?

Think of this as yet another DUI where the immediate cleanup was covered by a wealthy insurance company (thank God it wasn’t AIG), but a politically powerful father covering over the truth that his son was a drunken sailor! Who cares if fishermen stuck with boat payments had to risk their life by going further out to sea in weather best watched on an action TV show? Who cares that a Native American Corporation —Alaska's answer to the unfairness of lower 48 'Indian' Reservations— was forced into bankruptcy?

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