“There is a bit of an uncomfortable-ness that has folks on this web site cheering every down side of the American economic indicators, and expressing feelings of happiness when the real estate and other markets start to crash”

Cheering every down side?!?!?! You mean like cheering the fact that the dollar has declined almost 10% in a year?? I sure as hell am not cheering that. I will cheer when I see some douchebag realtor or mortgage broker who has screwing people for the past 5 years get their comeuppance. Unfortunately, people are going to lose their homes…nobody was complaining on the way up were they? Were they? No.