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February 2009: Today, at the DMV in San Diego, my wife asked the clerk behind the counter how they are dealing with the cut of several paid days a months, which Governor Schwarzenegger ruled in order to limit the State budget deficit, and she sighted that its hard to make ends meet. I remarked that, at least, she still had a job. She agreed, and expressed the hope that the good, encouraging speeches of Obama are signalling better times to come soon. My wife and she continued to exchange a few thoughts about the bad economy, and the clerk finally concluded: "What can we expect? We've been in the bushes for too long!" A simple but strikingly clear analysis of failed politics imposed on the U.S. for too long. We mentioned to her that in Trinidad people like to refer to the younger of the two Bushes as 'shrub', and she replied that she prefers the plural since there were two Bushes that were no good for the country.

Amazing, how simple language can capture the essence of a global crisis in one sentence.


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