Originally Posted by wig

I'm not. We keep going in circles on your sentence because (based on your last defense) you expect people to know what you meant, rather than what you typed.

Also, the particular point of gas prices goes beyond the mere meaning of one sentence. You use it in the OP to provide an example of things being worse.

I've tried -- quite patiently I think -- to help you understand that you have that exactly backwards.

You have already shown your true reason for the thread.

I doubt this comes as a surprise to anyone who reads your posts, but politics aside, "we" are definitely better off without having experienced a collapse of the world credit markets and a deflationary depression, and I don't know a single intelligent person who thinks otherwise. Neither Bush nor Obama did, which is why they both moved quickly to backstop the collapse.

Of course, that is not to say that I'm happy about what this has all come to. "We" face tough times and it won't be easy sailing ahead. I personally think it will get worse, but that's beside the point.