Commentary here.

^We’re living through a recession that constantly threatens to turn into something much worse. The state-run economy has been languishing on the couch, tossing unread bills into a growing pile next to a half-eaten bag of Doritos and a nest of empty soda cans. It hasn’t held a steady job in months, and when its mom hassles it to get up and look for one, it whines that nobody’s hiring… but it keeps flipping to the shopping channels and ordering massive entitlement programs. It has drained the college funds of its unborn children, and sold them into indentured servitude for quick cash, after it maxed out every credit card it could find. The state-run economy has become hideously bloated, and it could use a good shower to wash off the stink of corruption, but it howls in psychotic rage if anyone dares to call it fat or smelly. It occasionally makes feeble promises to lose some of its flab, but it has no intention of keeping them. The only thing that will make it haul itself off the couch is the sight of someone it thinks it can squeeze money out of. It’s only a few years away from the fatal coronary it refuses to admit is coming.^