Yes, there are lots of people who mortgaged their own futures just so they could have the latest toy right now and who have lots of credit card debt for frivolous garbage. But, how many citizens set immigration policy in this country to determine how many illegal immigrants are allowed to cross the border, take American jobs, and depress the formerly living wages of American workers? How many citizens own corporations that moved factories and manufacturing jobs--American jobs--to third world countries so they didn't have to pay living wages? How many citizens wrote the current contradictory tax laws that fleece the American middle class and reward the richest 5% of American citizens, who only live here long enough to retain citizenship for tax purposes? Which American citizens took us off the gold and silver standards, which meant that our fiat paper money was tangibly worthless? Which American citizens gave financial control over our country over to a cabal of largely-foreign private banking interests, so that we no longer controlled our own destinies? Which American citizens decided that we needed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in order to save us from people some American citizens decided we needed to spend money training and equipping in the first place? Which American citizens constantly ignore what the majority of American citizens want, despite their sworn Constitutional duty to listen to those same American citizens? I can think of 435 representatives and 100 senators in the Legislative, plus about another ten in the Executive and (at least) nine in the Judicial that deserve blame for what happened. Regardless of all lobbying efforts on the part of corporations and foreign governments, these individuals took the spirit of the Constitution and made a mockery of it. Yes, some people were over their heads as common citizens of this country, but simply calling the small fish "morons" for making small mistakes is to over-simplify and let the so-called representative government off the hook for their treasonous activities. There is only so much money to be spent by the government and it cannot be spent twice. How many trillions is it going to cost us for Bush's misadventures in the Middle East? If that money were kept in the economy (heck, if the Federal Reserve would stop running the money printing presses for one frikkin minute), then we would stop spending money that doesn't exist on things we don't need. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?