Buddy, Rosinette and Sgian Dbuh:
I think the three of you have all the ingredients for The Recipe (flashback to “The Walton’s” there).
The whole idea of a crisis to overshadow and dilute the monetary mess is exactly what the foot dragging in the gulf of Mexico has been about. Problem is, the numb, general populace is beginning to add 2 and 2 together and recognizing how solutions could have been implemented much sooner. Analogy: the potato salad has sat out too long.
This necessitates yet another crisis to draw attentions, but when the lights pan to the next ring of the circus, will it be the act that the ringmaster expects? That’s where the break in control will happen, where the card – counters messe up and it all falls down. Rosinette, I’m all but certain that none of these silky handed metro’s have ever been in a real crisis and the unraveling will only pick up velocity from there.

Sgian, that’s where the physic starts. A nice dose of castor oil to purge what ails. Unpleasant, but a necessary beginning, where with a bit of luck and Providence smiling our exceptionalism will again carry the day.

Buddy, the union monies be damned. They put their chip on the table the same as the rest of us, I hope it wakes them up to what they’ve been feeding all these years. The ones it doesn’t flip, well, we don’t want them anyway.