Oddly, this is the kind of thing that de Tocqueville thought was best about our country - our unceasing desire to yammer endlessly at one another over politics
i don't like bush either josh, but so long as you're living in W-land, he's still your president too
i'm far from an econ major, but what i was able to glean from the few econ classes i didn't sleep through is that no one seems to have a proper understanding of what the fuck's going on at the macroscopic level - that said, "trickle down" economics does seem an awful lot like rich people w/ serious prostate problems pissing on the poor folk