America’s “Night of the Living Dead” OR “Plan 10 from Wall Street” OR “I Spit on your Grave – the Goldman Sachs Story”

Like one of the midnight madness horror movie marathons (you remember those, where you find yourself watching “Plan 9 from Outerspace” @ 3 in the morning!) it is really difficult to move past the particular horrors that was our 8 years under President Cheney and George W.’s leadership (oops!). Recent polling has indicated that Americans are now feeling that the lives of their children will NOT be as prosperous or as good as theirs has been (for an excellent take on these polls read Peggy Noonan or Mort Zukerman’s op-ed articles in the WSJ over the last several weeks). I think this feeling that the lives of our children will be better than our own has been the real cornerstone of the American dream (not the big car or house). This represents a real sea change in how American’s view themselves and their country. With all the Bush administrations crimes & misdemeanors, the final, massive “fuck-you” was TARP in October of 2008 (the bailout of Wall Street) and all this has me thinking; did George W. and his cohorts in congress preside over the mortal wounding of our country and secondarily are the Obama administration moving us closer to the brink or further away?