[backhoe]

My fast- and irreverant- take on this?

We're paying the price for tolerating "the decade of frauds" that preceeded this era. It will eventually shake out.

[sarcasm]

I just wonder how long it will take. I'm sure that there are a number of frauds yet to be uncovered.

[THX 1138]

It will eventually shake out.

I'd give it about two years.

[demkicker]

"We're paying the price for tolerating "the decade of frauds" that preceeded this era. It will eventually shake out."

***Bingo***... I agree. I just hope it will rebound quickly because there's no way in hell Social Security gets reformed in the midst of sustained down turn of the stock market. Geeze, I can hear the Dems howling and fear mongering already.