re: #10 retired cynic

Think of what that would have done for the economy!

Oh, some people built their fortunes on it, but it didn’t really “trickle down” to the rest of us. It just threw the rest of us into a major recession plus having to bail them out of their own greedy failures.

And too many of us still haven’t caught back up to even the pre-Iraq War level we might have been at.