Crunch time

The financial markets are crashing down like so many blocks in a kindergarten play area. The de-regulators, awash with pride from the early 1980's on, now look to be the thieves we all thought them . Working folk, losing their homes,jobs life savings 401 K's will of course bear the brunt of this unfettered sociopath-like greed . Consider this:in 2001, there was a budget surplus of 3 TRILLION dollars.The new deficit after bailing out these bank robbers, will be 11.3 TRILLION. GWB and his crooks have done this is less than eight years! And people still want to vote for that party?...some favorite poets: Hafez, TAGORE,Whitman, Hughes,Du Fu, StoneHouse,Emily,Neruda,Richard Wright[his haiku are amazing] Rumi, Sa'di,Ferlinghetti,Han Shan,St.John Perse, Hopkins, the author of the Psalms,Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen,Martin Espada`,Niki Giovanni , Ginsberg, Snyder,Kyger,Ryokan,Homer,Wang Wei, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan,Eleytis,Paul Celan, Mahmoud Darwish, Seamus Heaney...