Financial talk:

As the chorus of voices lamenting the latest drop in the dollar suggest, it may well be time for Americans to emulate the ant. The problem is that the rest of the world keeps making it too easy for us to be the grasshopper.

I wish it would happen sooner. The sooner the pain, the sooner we'll be able to change course before 2008, so people will make the right choice that are less obsessed with abortion and gay marriage, and more concern for the next ten years.