[mewzilla]

I was fortunate enough to be listening that day. Nothing beats hearing from the boots on the ground.

Speaking of that, I conducted an informal poll of some of the small business owners I know over Black Friday weekend, and I can't beging to convey how infuriated/terrified/and/or pressimistic they are about the next two years. And Black Friday weekend was either a wash or a bust for these folks, BTW. Sigh.

[mewzilla]

And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Joihn Taylor, 1816