Where's a good trillion dollars when you really need it? Right about now, I imagine that our federal government is really wishing that it had that trillion dollars that our Republican president decided to piss away on his little adventure to prove that he could finish what his daddy could not: that adventure so pompously labeled "Operation Iraqi Freedom" - the liberation of the Iraqi people and at least one trillion dollars worth of taxpayers' money.
Of course, Americans have become so stupid and gullible, suckered by insincere calls to patriotism, that we have all kind of come to deserve the shit pile through which we're currently wading. When you turn human beings into no more than dumbed down "consumers" to feed the insatiable greed of extremist capitalism that is not balanced by social interests, when you work tirelessly over decades to hack away at the New Deal, then you get the kind of delightful situation we've found ourselves in.
What may be consolation to some haters of internationalism, the United Nations, and generally any people who are not red-blooded, gun toting, wolf-hunting-from-helicopters, flag waving Americans, is that if we go down we take the rest of the world with us.
U.S. Debt May Grow $1 Trillion on Rescue, Barclays' Pond Says