Last Thursday, the market's sharp decline -  plunging 513 points, its worst single day since December 1, 2008 - had analysts tripping over each other to declare an imminent double-dip recession. Then Standard & Poor downgrades America's credit for the first time in history. Everyone is pointing fingers at each other - Tea Party Republicans claim that the spending cuts were not drastic enough, and just about everyone else in America sees the entire situation as the Tea Party's manufactured crisis - a political strategem to help them win the 2012 election that has not only backfired, but has stomped out a fragile recovery for a government that is pretty much out of bullets, in terms of stimulating the economy.