[E. Cartman]

The board members of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be thrown against a brick wall and shot or find themselves magically beheaded on TV by our friends in the reformed domestic Taliban.

It's not well known but it was English fiscal insovlency which forced Charles I to seat a recalcitrant Parliament setting in motion what became The English Civil War of the 1640's and that it was French fiscal insovlency that forced Louis XVI to seat The Estates General, for the first time in over one hundred years, setting in motion what became The French Revolution.

(Strangely, I like your idea. If they want to earn the big bucks, their risks should be to themselves and not just to the American public.)

[Leisler]

Hitler had to start his war two to three years before his Generals said they would be ready because the German State could now borrow any more money and was within a few months of using up all reserves.

There was a depression on, trade was slow and how do people think the Nazi state paid for all those weapons, highways, productive men just marching around, day care, health care, ect?