No political candidate, no public figure, no financial guru who has said in the last 3 months that the "American economy is fundamentally sound" be allowed to talk in public about the economy, be allowed to suggest a solution, or work for an agency which must be involved in the solution.

Clearly new blood and new brains are needed, and the aforementioned folks should be forcibly retired. That wouldn't be necessary in a society which still had the concept of "shame". In the Japan of 100 years ago there would have been 3,000 miles of intestines lined up by now.

It's a bit galling to see those folks now saying it's grim and there may be a recession. There are people out there with foresight equal to those folks hindsight. Let's involve them in the solution.

Arf