I was going to write today about the mortgage mess, the credit crunch, various government rebates and hand-outs, but decided that this sign summed things up for me better (found here, here and here):

Maybe we actually get what we deserve. After all, if some of us are too dumb to do a Google or Wikipedia search before re-writing history, why should we expect that people would understand the concept of interest and time value of money, why should we expect that people would understand that you can’t perpetually finance homes when you only have to pay interest, and why should we expect companies to actually manage risk when that is what they are in the business to do.