Riding the waves

These are hard times. It seems that the harder we try, the poorer we become. Cash which flowed like a Mississippi of money in the 1980s has dried to a fitful trickle, seeped without a trace into deserts of debt in the arid 1990s. What went wrong? Whatever did we do to bring about this impoverishment? Do you understand what the hell is happening to our capitalist economy? I'm dammed if I do.