Americans are taking on too much debt, and it’s putting kinks in the economy. They love state-owe-masochism, getting fiscaled, bondage, and other stimulus measures. This is why they are being punished on the S&M 500.
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Rural America is being asked to bale out Wall Street. Most Americans don’t understand the crisis, so it had to be explained to them in Lehman’s terms. The bulls have lost; how quickly the Bears Sterns! The bank CEOs have been advised to keep off the streets, lest they be Merrilly Lynched.
Forget pension benefits – most American grannies want to be pinchin’ Ben Afflecks!
Overfishing makes us hard of herring. I won’t eat farmed fish either: I don’t believe in roughy housing, or carp pooling. I’ve haddock up to here!
Any plans to float a common currency are eurozoneous.
Ever since the economy crumbled I’ve not only lost my house, but my cutlery too. I’ve been fork losed!
What tree is thriving in this depressed economy? The weeping will owe.

The US economy is debt in the water. Nothing can fill its sales.
Hear about the dyslexic watchmaker who was ruined by the tocks market? That’s nothing compared to the horologist who spent all his money on prostitutes.
The recessionary economy follows the laws of soup line and demand.