Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

And seriously, it doesn't matter if God was in charge of this country, it can't be fixed. It was a phantom economy based on selling $10 for $12 to someone who then sells it for $15 and so on. The country didn't produce anything tangible over the last couple decades. Our biggest industries were banking, investment, and insurance.

No one can fix this, not Bush not Obama not McCain. It'll take massive deleveraging of our economy over the coming years to get us back to where we should have been.