What Romney Also Said

We are matching spark and flame
Caught in endless repetition
Life for life, we'll be the same
I must leave before you burn me
--The Fixx

While popular media has its minions wringing their hands over Romney's '47%' comment, it is largely ignoring other portions of the speech worthy of public discourse. This one is particularly interesting. Excerpt:

"So who is giving us the trillion [dollar loan]? And the answer is that we are making it up. The Federal Reserve is just taking it and saying, 'Here, we're giving it.' It's just made up money, and this does not augur well for our economic future."

Popular media has been hellbent on portraying Romney as some sort of out-of-touch crackpot. So why aren't they tossing this statement, radical indeed from a finalist in the presidential sweepstakes, on the fire to burn him?

Because full fledged public discourse on our monetary ponzi is something that the string pullers don't want.