and you article did nothing to address the fact that the reason we're not at those disastrous levels now is that the government then wasn't artificially propping up the economy.

If I'm right about this Tom then we're in even more serious trouble than you've ever seen in your life because any attempt to hold off the inevitable simply makes that recession deeper. Just possibly Carter by his inaction to do dumb things like drive interest rates down during his problems created the fiscal responsibility needed for those very booms you've bragged about since then.

Anyone with half a brain knows you don't spend and borrow yourself out of debt. You go with your guys Greenspan and Bernacke. On this issue I'm squarely in the corner of Ron Paul who gave old Ben quite a lesson in economics the other day. Paul may be a nut on many things but he was the smartest candidate in the mix on money issues.

Oh and about the gold, if you have any, send it my way.

Art