I am not saying that the GDP will not continue to fall or that the economy is in bad shape. That is not a challenging prognostication.

Anyways, tell you what, all I can tell is what I see actually happening verses your predictions of what will happen. Back in 06 lots of people who posted here were cracking lots of great jokes about the 30k inventory levels we would see. Lots of talk about how the lenders would go out of business. Lots of talk about how we would all get fantastic deals. Not much talk that the government would through 12 trillion of our tax money at the lending industry, insurance industry, or *insert industry here*. Not much talk of regulatory moves by the government to stem foreclosures.

My point is that I can only tell you what is happening not what will happen.

However I will go out on a limb and say none of us here, not you, or me, or most anyone else, will get the deals that investors get. Not now, not in the future. When you finally acknowledge the game is rigged you stand a better chance of understanding how to play it, rather then waiting for a level playing field.