SteveZ you surprise me with this post. You're so gloom and doom about anything even remotely left, and now you're all about "hope"?
IMHO, this happened on Bush's watch. And please don't give me "but this started long before Bush" when we are spending millions if not billions a month in Iraq.
Greenspan is saying "this is the crisis of a century". And although that guy should shut the

up, he might be right.
I listened to many economists last night, and they were saying that all of this could take 10 years! It's time to get real folks. Empires have fallen and American can go Bankrupt! That's the simple truth.
Clearly we need CHANGE!