Even those on our side are allowing themselves to be diverted into side-issues.

meantime, the US is heading for recession, the last UK 100% mortgage has been stopped, someone from the city said on Today (BBC daily current affaire a.m. prog) says there's a way to go, and we haven't seen the worst yet.

And the US has begun shedding jobs.

It's not beyond possibility that the US has to go to the IMF for a bail out.

The banks aren't trusting each other.

A solid business of more than 80 years collapsed within 3 days.

The keep-the-government-off-our-backs conservative banks are expecting the government to bail them out of problems they've created.

And the Inland Revenue and government are just alternative phrases for all of us.

it is constantly saddening how points get lost as tho memory shrinks when we go online.

Either that or in the stream of conversation. it's easy to ignore difficulties (or avoid or walk away). Or engage in trivia.

   Ivor