FB,
Thank god, somebody else that isn't mired in pessimism; the way people are thinking at the moment, we're going to talk ourselves into a never-ending recession. Contrary to popular opinion, there will come a day when things start to get better and we'll be in a better financial position; in comparison to the history of our country, it's a few seconds on the clock
With regards to America's bottomless pit of money, well even that is myth; racking up debt at a rate of $1.5 trillion a year is going to come round and bite them in the ass in a very, very big way - hence my extreme distrust of the -B surviving.