Is that better than slitting your wrists? What a jerk. The folks during the Great Depression hung in there for almost 12 years.
Hang in there. They have to get the military open acceptance policy enacted into official law in a couple of weeks when DADT is repealed and then the big surprise. Lottery draft young people eligible for selective service to go to the ME. Going all in I suspect at some point. Too much riding on us standing by and watching the oil center of the world fall into anarchy and ultimately enemy muslim religious state control. I’m not saying it will happen, but it could.
We learned from the last great depression the only way out of a demand side depression is to get into a big stinking war. I guess it would be us and China racing to take as much territory as we could hold over there. It will involve China. Not Russia, Russia is a net exporter of commodities, esp O&G. China and the US are the monster consumers. We are the ones who will have the most to lose if the ME goes fundy and some sort of islamic republic can be formed ie a Caliphate.