If you thought the financial crisis of 2008 was bad, get ready for real collapse. The world – partially driven by America’s Keynesian failures – is propping itself up on debt. The United States, already $12 trillion in debt, still has some $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities for social security and medicare (money it WILL owe), and the baby boomer generation is getting ready to retire.

If that doesn’t spell disaster to you, you probably went to public school.

BPN has never been a place for investment advice, considering I’m not much of an investor and don’t have a lot of good stuff to tell you. But I’m so confident that silver is a great investment right now that I’m going to make an exception and tell you now, on November 17th, 2009, that you should buy up silver.

The current price? $18.42 per troy ounce, if I’m reading the market quotes correctly – but definitely around $18 per ounce. If you believe what I believe, you’d know: silver is dirt cheap.

If solving poverty were as simple as giving poor people entitlements, we would have eliminated poverty a long time ago.

Things aren’t so simple.

(Left: A typical middle-class home in Dantopia.)

I can’t remember being much more frustrated as a U.S. citizen than when I saw the House of Representatives pass H.R. 3962 on a Saturday night just a few days ago. Sneaky Democrats (including Nancy “The Catholic Church Isn’t Sure About Abortion” Pelosi) were smiling from ear-to-ear, jutting out their chins, and clapping in self-congratulation after passing what the Wall Street Journal has called the worst bill of all time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama’s America!

There are some things about conservatism I’m not happy about. No, I’m not saying I’m a stupid moderate – if I ever do that you all have permission to punch me in the face.

(Left: Despite the siren song of pulchritudinous conservatives like Carrie Prejean, I am not 100% conservative.)

In the name of cutting spending – no, that is not a joke – the White House is cutting $17 billion in non-taxpayer funding for the nuclear fuel depository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This is important because it cuts the legs from the nuclear energy industry out from underneath, as if it wasn’t already regulated to death, by taking away a national place to store and process nuclear waste.