You know, things sure were tough back in the Third Deregulatory Downturn. You know, the Big Sell Off in the Oughts. The Oh-My-God-We're-Screwed-athon. The...
Seriously, what do we call this thing? Peter Sagal of NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me has suggested The Great Post-Millennial Clusterf@#k, which isn't half bad.
But I'm looking for something that says "This is what you get when you let the philosophy of Ayn Rand and Ronnie Reagan replace common sense, and would the last one out please turn off the lights? Thanks." Can you get that down to a catchy three word phrase?
When the grandkids teleport in for the weekend from their home on Mars(or straggle home after scouring the ashes for ammunition to fight off the cannibal onslaught), what are you going to call this economic disaster?