@Richard_Florida, 3/19/11 8:33 AM

Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida) 3/19/11 8:33 AM Did Americans really "pay-down" debt or just give up & default - WSJ RealTimeEconomics - http://on.wsj.com/grVnMm

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?"

--Cicero