[joe fonebone]

and this differs from any other day or any other issue how???

time for the voters to reap what they have sown..

let them eat cake

[kabar]

There will be plenty of pain to go around. There is no way out of this fiscal mess without plenty of pain. The longer we postpone it, the greater and more devastating the pain.

If we go the way of Greece, one can easily imagine, if history is any guide, the rise of a man on horseback, i.e., a strong central authority, will emerge to restore civil order. The federal government will become larger and stronger.