really be as incompetent as they appear ... by all accounts they are hooking up their amps and loudspeakers to their fiddles while the country is going down in flames ... While China tells their citizens to buy gold, Americans are in courts determining ownership on "foreclosed" properties, all personal incentive is eliminated by a take care of everyone government.

Common sense is replaced by political correctness driven by fear of lawsuits over the potential for contributory liability on every front. People are paralyzed, the markets are becoming paralyzed and the great student of the depression seems like he is hellbent on pushing the pedal to the metal in taking the country deeper into a hole from which extrication will be excruciatingly painful for joe average.

Let historians begin the account of what is clearly the fall of the American empire.

with regret

orgy