Pretty Good for Government Work – NYTimes.com:
“So, again, Uncle Sam, thanks to you and your aides. Often you are wasteful, and sometimes you are bullying. On occasion, you are downright maddening. But in this extraordinary emergency, you came through — and the world would look far different now if you had not.”
(Via Politics : NPR.)
The Oracle of Omaha thanks the federal government for saving our bacon in 2008. The great political irony is the bailouts in these crisis moments are what started the Tea Party. I wonder if they knew how close they came to total economic annihilation? Ignorance is indeed expensive!