Allow me to pre-empt this thread by summarizing everything that will inevitably be posted in response to the original article. This way, we don’t have to waste time posting things here that aren’t going to change anyone’s mind anyway.
* Mister Smartypants Comptroller Man is just being an alarmist like the global warming/peak oil people because he wants to sell books and be on TV.
* Fighting terrorists is expensive! If we are running out of money then we need to get rid of Medicare/Social Security/Public Schools/The Police Department so that we can keep fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.
* Who cares what happens to the US? I’ve already made MY MONEY and I’m gonna move to Brazil/Switzerland/Antarctica where everything is sexier/more efficient/much colder anyway!
* If Mister Smartypants Comptroller Man doesn’t like it here, why doesn’t he just get the hell out? Maybe he’d rather live in Iran — hey, just who is this guy working for anyway? Maybe he needs a little waterboarding hee hee.
* If there are problems, they’re all Bill Clinton/Al Gore/Michael Moore’s fault. Bill Clinton got a BJ hee hee and the girl was fat hee hee.
* Al Gore is a fat poo-poo head. And a liar.
Okay everyone, back to the housing threads. Nothing more to see (or say) here…