[G.R.]

and the sheep keep electing worthless politicians, Dem or Repub, to "represent" them sometimes for decades, Stevens comes to mind...it has been getting worse for the last 40 years...and most of us "boomers" just sat back and were apathetic to what was going on around us, more interested in our self-gratifing lives.

We can blame whoever we want, the unions, the gov't, the Middle East, the banks, immigration, what have you for our current economic problems...

in reality we only have our own selves to blame because most Americans don't pay attention and when it comes time to go to the polls we blindly listen to the "spin" and vote back in Joe Schmuck " 'cuz he's been a politician for so many years he must know what he's doing" ... I admit I'm guilty of it....how about any of you?????....meanwhile ol' Joe's getting "fatter"...ever seen poor or middle class politicians after a few years in office?

And now we cry out in the wilderness of economic doom........