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Day 190 Monday (Lunes) - Playa Coronado

We spent some time sitting out back on the patio talking with friends from various backgrounds. Panamanian, American, and Canadian. The discussions are very similar to others we also talk with. WHY are you here and what do you see going on back in your home country.  We all come from different walks of life yet we all have a common thread, Americanism is destroying the very fabric that was originally created and we don't even see it happening (well some of us do ;))

A big election is going to happen in the US this year and from where we sit we see the same things going on that will have no impact in making America right. In Panama, away from the government where the real people live, we see free markets happening all day long. You have something I need and I have something you need, so we trade and/or share it, no money changes hands, what for? Now I know this seems antiquated, but isn't that how free markets work? Now capitalism, we talk about all the time, not free markets anymore, well to us capitalism works very similar to free markets, EXCEPT, profit needs to be made on the trade/sharing that takes place and government needs to control and regulate the deal. So if I have a chicken and give you a dozen eggs and you have a cow and give me some milk - that's free markets, but the same exchange in capitalism will be (well my milk is more expensive than your eggs so you give me the eggs plus something else for the milk) O, (and the government will say, wait you can't sell or trade that milk or eggs until we check it out).
GET MY POINT.

So here we are today in huge amounts of debt and it is looking like we have no place to go but down, further in debt until the whole system gets a reset. Anyone have one of those big red EASY buttons from the staples commercials?

OK, off to some local rum and coconut water