I think many have been vastly understimating the tremendous resiliance and underlying strength that has been the foundation of this country's economy since the Reagan tax cuts. And for the record, there has seldom been a day in the last 25 years were some doom and gloomer economic "experts" were predicting the imminent near collapse of our entire economy...kinda like the malthusian/environmental wackos who are constantly predicting calamity around the corner...and yet we just keep going strong and getting better an better.

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"It's a good feeling to shoot a bad guy. Something you democrats would never understand. Americans are homesteaders, we want a safe home, keep the money we make, and shoot bad guys!"

----Denny Crane