No Crisis Yet

A very good article on Slate, explaining that yet again, we're unlikely to hear anything substantive about how either candidate is going to fix what's wrong with the economy or with the governmental deficit that we're running. Neither candidate is going to touch the adjustments, sacrifices and pain that we're going to have to go through with a ten-mile pole. We all know that eventually, there is going to be a crisis, and that's when someone will finally start seriously dealing with the problem. Of course, by then, all of the choices for dealing with the mess are going to be bad ones...