You can put a bandaid on a sliced arm or leg... in fact you can continue placing strategically placed bandages on these broken appendages to give the appearance of health. It will fool those at a distance and even some close by, however, a fever will set in and eventually that appendage will contract gangrene and either need to be amputated or the other option which is to wait and poison the entire body, beginning with a fever and shutdown of blood flow to the extremities and eventual shutdown of all vital organs. What started as a simple problem which if cleaned out and given the proper antibiotics, life could have been sustained, short term visual solutions were enacted as the core of the the problem propagated to be the eventual death of the organism. The organism is the financial system and healthy functioning of the capitalistic and socialistic mixture to allow the machine of the country work within rules yet enjoy the liberties of a lightly controlled market. But folks, do you not understand the idea of not putting bandaids on these wounds? Do you fail to see the sepsis that forms when the main issue is ignored? Do you not understand that trading a few more good years will bring about the complete collapse of the economy? Do you not understand that the folks on the bottom of the pyramid get nothing although promised everything by those who began this pyramid. And finally, we will see as the snake begins to devour itself. Is greed that addictive to resist the eventual and complete collapse? I have only questions with no answers and I apologize for that, however if I did have the answers, would they not fall upon deaf ears? After all an alcoholic knows when to much is too much.... right?