I'm just gonna go hide in Canada until all this hate blows over.

 Just the fact that you are an american makes you EVIL!

Now use all your money on chinese goods so that my china stocks get back on track!  

One thing few people seem to understand is that a downturn in the ecconomy is an opportunity to make a lot of money if you are prepared for it ...

Most people make the mistake of going overboard in boom times, and spend money like drunken soldiers; often they will build up lots of debt and find that they are in a position where they need to make as much (or more) than they currently make in order to pay their bills.

If you have healthy savings you can withstand quite a large shock to your income and/or be able to invest in undervalued investments and get a good return as the ecconomy gets back on track.

I understand that this is easier said than done being that many people have difficulty making ends-meat, but the majority of people living pay-check to pay-check tend to be having difficulty not because they make too little money but because they spend too much money.

If Europe's economy is larger than the US, why is the US throwing Europe into a recession?

Just rhetorical -- I agree that business and political idiots here (I am in the US) have done much more harm than good this century.

However, given the global nature of the economy, there is a lot of blame to go around.

Mike from Morgangtown

seems like people like to blame america when something goes wrong and rarely gives america credit when things do actually go right.

 Yeah we don't really get blamed although we follow and do exactly what the States does. 

 We haven't had a good president since Reagan. and I'm not very impressed with ANY of the current candidates. and this is the year I can finally vote in a presidential election too...

Seriously, a lot of people in my country aren't digging America/Bush/American Kapitalism/The Iraq war/The way Israel and America treat Palestinians etc...

Only problem is that our leading parties (Netherlands: CDA, PVDA) and the rest of the EU are such close allies of the US that they always tend to go with the flow... Really stinks because almost everyone hates America (in the way it works economically) and the way Bush does things... 

hoerenkind? haha gelukkig hebben we geen nederlandse mods hier.

Sure, you and everyone else like to throw blame at us when things go wrong, but the fact is, the only reason that this is negatively affecting your markets is because we have positively affected your markets so much in the past.  If you didn't benefit from our growth, you wouldn't have had anything to lose in the first place.  So deal with it.