I'm watching Fox News Saturday morning business programming and the discussion has turned to legalizing pot and the prospective tax revenue benefits.

Are you kidding me? We have a financial system that has been ballooned to the point of being easily manipulated and which subsequently has been purposely collapsed, and now legalizing pot is a solution to the literally life-threatening problem this financial collapse has only but begun to unleash?

Look, the debate here is not about the efficacy of pot. Pot is what pot does (to paraphrase Forrest Gump).

Rather, what I am saying is those well-known philosophical enemies to a safe, stable, happy, opportunity-filled life are demonstrating themselves EXTRAORDINARILY vulnerable to being relegated to the dustbin of history with such shameless promotions as do more to expose intellectual bankruptcy than elevate serious inquiry.

Look at it this way. The premier "business" channels in the U.S. are promoting the pot "industry" (that's what CNBC is calling it!) above all other things.

We have so many other creative, productivity-enhancing, life-uplifting projects we could engage ... things whose potential positive impact tax-wise dwarfs anything possible as a result of legalizing pot. For example, making the leap from being a hydro-carbon based economy to becoming a hydrogen based economy.

All it takes is consensus and political will ... and nothing else.

Which is precisely what Fox and CNBC are attempting to build with their pro-legalization screed.

Would you in your right mind accept less than what can be yours? Why are the so-called "business" media trying to push something offering less down our throats?

Again, this is not about pot. Rather this is about good business. Do you see how thoroughly Fox and CNBC are exposing the bankruptcy of the casino economy they, more than any other mainstream outlets, have helped build up?

I don't for a minute believe this is the best they could do.

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