spending has worked through the system and the pump is dry. all of the houses of cards will come tumbling down, and greece, and ireland and portugal and spain, mere canaries in the coal mine. and renee says, i have little control over the matter, and afterall, the same people who caused the recession just retook control of congress and i'm poor. the day that the gop bends over backwards to help the poor, i will know for certain that the apocalypse is upon us. brian writes that i honestly think i will be better off and the government needs to focus on job creation and ichbstenstead debt. for once i have faith in the republicans. amanda, i will be better off, but the country, i'm not so sure. maybe this is the natural cycle of entropy that all empires mut go through, or maybe we're just doomed by our own hubris. i don't see any way out of this