<i>Bad assumption my frigid Norwegian ass! What about the AAA rating from the agencies?<p>They fucked up too.<p>[...]<p>Well that's just great, asshole. What am I supposed to tell my villagers?<p>Tell them you fucked up.</i><p>It's not every decade that real estate takes a strong economy (3Q 2007) and throws it immediately into the toilet. This is what Bushonomics gives us: our recoveries are jobless and flaccid, and our "slowdowns" are disastrous, even when they fall short of being numerical recessions.