It is as if we have all graduated from one school.

The demons begged him, saying, If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.

So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

The US government (or European governments, for that matter) can t get us out of our current economic mess any better than they can get us to the moon at this point.