What a proud day to be a US politician

As if the fiasco of the last few weeks wasn't enough of an embarrassment, now S&P downgrades us to AA+. OK not a bad credit rating, and S&P is hardly reputable I mean didn't they tell us all to invest in mortgage backed securities a few years ago?

Now China is offering us financial advice. Now China makes some kick ass chicken and other food, but when they need to tell us to live within our means that's just another kick in the balls...

But on the plus side there are some good things that came out of this

10. The canadian coins I've been saving will finally be worth something.
9. I've been dreading having to call Bank of America to refinance since it goes to some indian dude that doesn't speak english.
8. At least at Thanksgiving we won't have to have a family argument over which political party is to blame, clearly they both are.
7. It's been so hard for late night comics to have something to laugh at, this makes it much easier.
6. At least now that the USPS finally admits they can't pay the government, they have something to blame it on besides incompetence.
5. Just think when noone has money for food the government will finally have done something about all the fat kids we have.
4. Well when interest rates are 18% again, we'll spend less time bitching about the $4 a gallon for gas.
3. Hey now all of Europe gets to laugh at our crappy economy instead of worrying about theirs.
2. And we were all worried about social security not having money to pay retirement, heck we'll be lucky to still be alive by then.
1. I always wanted to live off of the land, soon I will be