i never would have thought it would get this bad, and it's going to get worse...if the usa bounces back in a year or two, it will still be facing an economic apocalypse due to the national debt, trade deficit, and the unfunded liabilities in social security and medicare...the total monetary value of those debts makes the burst real estate bubble look like a bad fart...now the us gov't is in crisis management so dealing with those debts is being put off AGAIN