The American Dream:

And the father of the 21st century American Economy said, "We ought to make the pie higher." — George W. Bush, Republican Presidential debate, February 2000.

Mixed metaphors really aren't important to anyone except English teachers, are they? I mean they don't really illustrate muddy thinking, do they? And they're never a sign that somebody is trying to con you, are they?

Maybe we should ask Fran Barbaro who now is forced to sleep on a pull-out couch in a tiny apartment. She used to have a stock portfolio worth a million bucks and hung original art on the walls of her big, fancy home, according to Peter S. Goodman, writing in today's New York Times. Ms. Barbaro is just one of the people profiled by Goodman in just another of the many news stories reporting on the American financial collapse brought about by the muddied thinking of the current "decider."