Trying to reassure the public it's not just us? Other nations are struggling too. Do you think if they included and compared the average per-capita income and total populations of each country identified (including the US), that it would have caused some of those gunhoe liberals to take a sombering look not only at what we've become, but who we're now being compared and classified as financial equals to? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-Countries-in-Deep-usnews-14971805.html;_ylt=Av_c8bUFZAOYOhWStQReJvgazJV4?.&.pf=real-estate