An ode to Ben Bernanke

I watched Ben Bernanke's first public interview Sunday night on 60 minutes, and I can't imagine there is another person more qualified to get us out of the current recession.

The man:
won a state spelling bee at 11 and finished 26th in the national competition
taught himself calculus
edited the school newspaper
was class valedictorian
got a 1590 on the SAT
has a B.A. in economics from Harvard
a PHD in economics from MIT
has taught economics at Stanford, NYU, and Princeton
is one of the 50 most published economists in the world
and is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great Depression; on which he has written extensively.

Sweet Georgia brown!!

I don't think I and my 350 facebook friends could collectively accomplish such a resume. And the man is only 55!

The unemployment rate is at 8.1 percent, worst since 1983
The national debt is 76 percent of our GDP, worst since the early 50's
The national debt also just crossed the $11 trillion mark
The stock market is at levels equal to 1998
And worst of all...I have to pay $3 to do a load of laundry

My economics education (other than what I've taught myself) consists solely of a required high school course where we spent an entire week learning how to fill out a 10-40 EZ tax form.

OH!! So I'm supposed to write my name in the space where it says to write my name!

I, like most of America, have a hazy idea of how we got in this mess, am nervous about how long we'll be in this mess, an have no freaking clue what we should do to get out of this mess.

But I do believe that the Chairmen of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board knows all these things.

After all, the man got a higher score on the SATs than Zach Morris.