Scrooge? Who cares. Stupid, inappropriate, maybe.
This is supposed to be a Woodworking List, no?
I'll bet that there is an Economics 101 list or similar. Maybe a Glenn Beck / Fox News list where you might commune with like-minded individuals who have the interest and time for such diatribes.
The very act of typing "OT" in your subject line should clue you in to get out of this list and sign in to some political blog.
I read this thinking it had some relationship to the topic - maybe a comment on a new tool you found Friday (like that little device that turns an old 5G paint bucket into a small shop vac that HD offered).
And to the rest of you who replied to this post and, thus, drove it to the top of the "most active" list that is sent out each day, thanks a lot. Better you, too, should hold your water and ignore OT posts - or at least reply to the sender and not to the group.
Talk to you wife about shopping, talk to the TV, talk to the wall, but leave us out of it - please.