Reply #10: Okay ...

[RoyGBiv]

I won't give you any George Bush crap, at least not directly.

I'll give you the value of our dollar as compared to the Euro. I'll give you the fact that our currency is being propped up by nations that were hard hit by the recent natural disaster in Asia and that these nations could, at any moment, determine it is financial suicide to continue supporting American currency. And, I'll give you the notion that oil is on the verge of being traded in Euros by at least one major exporter (and how many are there now?) if things don't go quite the way they want them to, and I'll give you that our current government (here's the indirect part, in case you weren't already aware) is doing *nothing* to address this problem that promises, even if the worst case scenario is not realized, to fundamentally, and in an economic heartbeat, alter the basis of our rapidly crumbling economy for the unrecoverable-in-our-lifetime worse.

I'll also give you this. My country is murding tens of thousands of people and calling it liberation. My country is sending its men and women to kill and die for corporate profit. My country has released a man named Paul from the military after he received wounds that shattered his nervous system to the point he can no longer perform the job he was trained to do, and Paul is now filing for bankruptcy and looking at the potential of homelessness because the government that yanked him out of his life and put him into a situation that caused him to be injured (did I mention that situation was built on a lie?) refuses to recognize his injury as life-altering and will not provide him with appropriate medical, psychological, or financial care.

Need more? I got tons more.

Take your FDR analogy and play some really weird game with it.

OnEdit: Changed certain phrasing.