Reply #62: Amen to that.

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I have an interesting question: do the would-be Aristocrats ever consider that if WE go down, THEY might also? Do they really believe that if this country goes down, that they will somehow be immune to the meltdown?

This is what I find so fascinating. This last decade (the Gay 90's) we saw unparalleled success: the market went up up up, real estate, profits, expansion did the same thing. It seemed that we were golden. A lot of it was just an illusion, however. I think that growth was hyped, but no one cared because we were ON TOP.

I personally believe that we went over to the Dark Side during that decade. It set us up for what's to come next: the Slide Down.

So these fools who are Flush With Cash are having a good time now. They believe the 90's are going to continue forever.

My humble prediction: Humpty Dumpty is about to fall off his little perch. It's going to be very difficult to put the pieces back together again. It's going to get a lot worse. Many, many more people are going to lose their jobs.

And like Kurt Russell said in the movie Backdraft as his fireman friend was about to fall through the opening "You go; we go".