Have it your way. We're doomed.
God knows I've heard it before.
As long as you're playing with your Wayback Machine, it might be fun to go back and pick up the 2007 posts about the surge and Iraq. How many people here were on record as saying all-out civil war was utterly inevitable, and the only thing we could do was run while we could?
While you're at it, read that NYT article just above your post about Fannie Mae. Read the names, the players, and the history. Then you can guzzle down the same Kool-Aid as everyone else and tell me the only reason the economy is having trouble is because the government isn't powerful enough.