[lateStarter]

Perhaps when Cheney made the remark several years ago he was refering to the lifestyle of the top 1% of his fellow-Americans. Those posting and reading here have most certainly made some other plans and arrangements since those words were uttered. Still, all of the posters here and at other like minded sites only amount to a small fraction of the population. The rest of the population is anxiously eyeing the exits, but they are already boarded up from the outside.

Since none of us actually know when the facade will come down, I guess the real question is - what happens when it does? Sooner or later (probably sooner) even J6P is going to realize that even though he drew the short straw it was all rigged that way from the get-go. I don't think Americans are dumb, they just have a high tolerance for ineptitude - as long as they are getting theirs or still have a reasonable chance to do so. Once that has faded, watch out - things could get ugly. All that pent up rage will have no channel to express iteslf, other than violence. Unfortunately, it will not be directed at those most responsible for the problem.

But that only brings up another dilemna. Who is actually more responsible for the problem - the keepers or those kept that quielty acquiesced as long as they were supplied with their creature comforts...

In a pensive mood. Your thoughts as we enter these unchartered waters...

[Plantagenet]

Don't forget all the the wealthy limousine liberals in Connecticutt....

Ned Lamont says: "This is our Katrina"

"A deeper analysis was offered by local Democrat Ned Lamont, who in one fell swoop compared Greenwich’s money woes to the Japan malaise, Asian tsunami and the New Orleans flood.

“It really is a financial tsunami, and it could go either way,” said the multimillionaire telecommunications mogul who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. “It took Japan 20 years to recover from their buying binge. How long does it take us to work through excessive leverage? That could take years not months. This is our Katrina.”

[Pops]

I'm still optimistic about the US, not that there won't be violence but that we will muddle through. There will be big problems elsewhere but I'm thinking not so much here.

Sure we've lurched to the right and to the left, gone forward and back, drunk on the resources we found here but we always come back to the middle and I hope we will continue.

We won't have any easy time to come but we have about the worst system to help us get through...

aside from any other.

[lateStarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'D')on't forget all the the wealthy limousine liberals in Connecticutt....

Ned Lamont says: "This is our Katrina"

"A deeper analysis was offered by local Democrat Ned Lamont, who in one fell swoop compared Greenwich’s money woes to the Japan malaise, Asian tsunami and the New Orleans flood.

“It really is a financial tsunami, and it could go either way,” said the multimillionaire telecommunications mogul who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. “It took Japan 20 years to recover from their buying binge. How long does it take us to work through excessive leverage? That could take years not months. This is our Katrina.”