>I had the same thought! :)
In the book "God Loves Laughter", William Sears wrote something like this (quoted from memory): The economy was at its lowest point. We knew it, because Washington had been telling us so for the last 4 years.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)