Anyone scared about the economic crisis?

[aimeecc]

I worry about my retirement investments, my sons college savings investments... all tied to the market.

But I more worry about the US as a whole. I worry that more people will lose their jobs and lose their homes and not have health care. Its going to further the divide between haves and have nots. GWB seems to not care about the economy. It seems the more the fed tries to help the worse it gets.

And I have yet to understand, beyond greed, why gas prices keep rising. In the fall it was because of winter heating costs. Now its spring, and the prices are being raised because people are going on vacation. Come summer it will be raised again because of cooling costs, then right back to winter where it will be raised again for heating costs. Ok, when is it going to go down? If its spring and heating costs go away, why doesn't it decline? I know, a rhetorical question. Its because of greed. But how long can we keep paying these prices at the pump?