reality-based educator

Let's see, GM workers are staging their first strike since 1970.

The U.S. dollar achieved parity with the Canadian dollar for the first time since 1976.

Oil is nearing Seventies prices, adjusted for inflation.

The bond market is worried about inflation/stagflation.

The FBI says violent crime has risen at an alarming rate the last two years.

The U.S. is stuck in a war it can't win and it can't seem to get out of.

Heckuva job, Bushie - you brought back the Seventies!!!