No one is saying we should do away with our military or our financial systems but we do need to shut down most if not all of our foreign military bases and cut out foreign aid to rein in this informal empire we've built because we cannot afford to continue financing it with money that has only the theoretical value of monopoly money with nothing to back it up but IOUs. The federal Reserve was ostensibly set up to stabilize the economy but it does that by adding funny money into the system which causes gigantic destabalizations and rampant inflation. The free market isn't really free and the banks will go on doing stupid things because they have minimal risk thanks to the Federal Reserve being there to always bail them out. The banking industry is the only business that has this socialized system to step in if it makes a stupid business decision - does your business have such a "safety net" that is guaranteed with taxpayers' money? The banks need to sink or swim the way any other business does, and our military needs to protect our nation the way every other military in the world does.