freddy....not trying to trash you but you tend to rant aimlessly and lash out at anyone without the same views as you....you fail to understand that politics is just the redistribution of wealth....in republican years the rich get richer and the poor get poorer...there has not been a time in the U.S since the "great depression" that the difference in what the poor make and what the rich make has been so great....the second most powerful country in the world went belly up and it was bad for the world economy....hopefully we're not headed in that direction too....what would the world do when two super-powers who hold the majority of nuclear weapons in the world go defunct?