Wow! I got even more amusement out of this than the zombie thread. My favorite part was FormerSanDiegan offering to sell his house to Scruffy for a 5% discount off 2007 prices.
Nor-La-Temcu-SD-GUY definitely called it with “But, at the same time I think that the U.S. goverment knows there is no way it (we) can afford a serious recession so there will be continuous heroic efforts to avoid any serious economic slow down.”