Get a grip. The roots of the current crisis started near the end of the Clinton administration and the beginning of the Bush II administration with the changes in banking and lending laws.

Following your illogical ramblings maybe we can say it started with Nixon and the ending of the gold standard in 1971, or the in the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal, or possibly Lincoln and the Revenue Act of 1861. Or how about with Hamilton?

Or the REAL root of it all – banking itself, started by the Italians in the 1400's.

MagicalSkyFather has been puffing too much of his magical sky herbs lately, if you ask me.

“They have to destroy the economy to save it”, is what you are saying.

Or is it, “The stimulus was a success, but the economy died”?

Hyper-inflation and currency devaluations (those in fact have started). Obama and the Democratic Congress are spending us to bankruptcy.

And no 'but the Republicans overspent, too'.

First, anytime I try to point out parallels in history on this board by Democrats, I get shouted down with cries of 'they did too is no argument'. So it isn't.

But second and mainly the current actual and attempted spending sprees are orders of magnitudes beyond the Republican Congress or Bush/Democratic Congress years, and the deficit spending is beyond any wartime spending ever, inflation adjusted or not.