If you read only ONE thread today.

[Barack_America]

Make it this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6968919

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in serious trouble.

[annabanana]

1. It would be a tremendously wrenching thing to have the figures

restored to some semblance of accuracy that all semblance of confidence would crumble.

[Ron Green]

2. You know, what has been propped up all these years is an unsustainable lifestyle.

Even a "modest" middle-class level of consumption, by American standards, is good for only a few decades, and then only on the backs of subsistence workers (slaves, sharecroppers, migrants, now foreign factory workers) and the depletion of non-renewable resources.

They cooked the books long enough to fool two or three GENERATIONS of Americans into thinking this is all normal.