Asked whether there’s a risk of another Great Depression if Congress doesn’t approve a $700 billion bailout package, Sarah Palin said: "Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on."

The word "road" when said by Palin makes me shudder like a goose walking over my grave, because Sarah knows her roads, at least the road to nowhere, a $26 million dead-end gravel road, which at the time of her acceptance speech at the RNC, was still an ongoing use of earmarked funds.

Also the  Great Depression, which pretty much sucked, was immediately followed what by what most sane people don’t want: a World War, specifically WW2, the one that ended with a big boom. I And don’t mean the economic growth of the 1950s, but the other mushrooming boom.

War is not a really great way to help the economy. Granted it looks like a quick fix… but it’s not working real well now, so let’s not go there, kthnx.

BTW,  didn’t it used to just be called the Depression? I guess maybe the "Great" was added on because it’s either bigger than the more recent ones. Or else the next one is gonna be the Super Lousy Massive Ginormous Depression and will make the 1930s look like the Roaring Twenties.

While the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Palin and the rest rushing into this bailout should remember Moliere’s words:  "Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."