Which threat is the worst? Al-Qaeda or the Credit Crunchers?

I don't wish to trivialise any threat of terrorism, as this is a barbaric act of indisciminate criminality. However, I do take issue with George Bush when he says, in his folksy advice to Barack Obama, "The most urgent threat he will have to deal with, and other presidents after him have got to deal with, is an attack on our homeland. I wish I could report that is not the case, but there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict damage on Americans. That will be the major threat."

I beg to differ. It may be a major threat, but it is not THE major threat. The major threat that is on every American's doorstep is the imploding economy. Slowly the authorities are going after the crooks and dodgy dealers, slowly the minds of Congress are attempting to think about the problems, but it still seems a long way off before sanity sinks in. Funny money floats about like confetti, whilst real money goes to pay for unimportant things.

Whilst it is the first duty of any government to safeguard the wellbeing of its citizens, this does not come before checking that another cuckoo is in the nest. There is currently a huge monetary cuckoo in Congress's nest. The bird needs seeing to!