[Skybird]

Enjoy the laughter as long as it still could last. The fiscal structure and total debts level expressed in % of the GDP between the US and Greece is very similiar. If you read the small signs, you see that the wolfpack of speculators is already flocking together to mount the allout attack on the US as well. Even before Portugal, Spain, Italy or France, the UK's and the US's financial situation is much worse and far more threatening. The US plays on the same level - if not even a worse - like Greece. Economists like Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston university) have shown that the to-be-expected income of the American state in the forseeable future of coming years is 16 times smaller than the spendings. In case of Greece, that factor is 17. Or as Kotlikoff put it in a German interview some days ago: already in the near future the Greeks will be better off than the Americans.

But in a way Clarke and Dawe are right with their satire: black humour is the only way how one could bear the madness of the present and the threat of the future. As far as my humble self is concerned: I have completely run out of advise, any idea I could think of - I can show to fail for sure, but not to work.