"ulysses" wrote in message
news:1095272053.X9cY0fJzPW3oG4ozAj6mWA@teranews...
Because when I hear
someone say "Man, I haven't seen things this bad since the Great
Depression," I take them to mean that things today are as bad as they
were back then.

I take it to mean that the person who would say such a thing is a partisan
idiot whose opinion matters not.