Reply #8: I so do hope you are right.

[tom_paine]

But I am almost certain you are wrong.

The country Japan sang the dirges for in the 1980s were economic songs, so to speak.

Now, we are rotting from within like a bloated corpse. Every system is impacted, every system is attacked. All checks and balances seem short-sircuited and disconnected.

I hope and pray you are right. How I would love to look back from 20 years and think how foolish and overwrought we all were.

It's still possible.

The happiest plate of crow I will ever eat...