Mike,
OK, old family toast:
"Here's to you as good as you are,
and here's to me as bad as I am.
But as good as you are and as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are as bad as I am."
That seems to be about as relevant as anything else in resolving the problems of the world. ;-)
(Especially if accompanied by a rather large glass of a certain substance purely for medicinal purpose)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
