The Opening Missive I Wanted to Write - 12/15/11

• Let's put our cards on the table.

I get it, the world is flat. I have read Tom Friedman.

I recognize that no nation is an island and we are all economically interconnected, but, seriously? A bunch of Europeans are upsetting a stabilized-to-improving situation in the United States' economy, creating a real threat of a worldwide economic double-dip and hurting our stock market.

Like I give a crap about a bunch of German leaders who are intransigent and dogmatic in policy and are dangerously bullying the rest of the EU?

As for the French, they are governed by a bunch of socialists in the Senate -- they don't believe in capitalism to begin with.

German and French leaders and central bankers should all be given an ultimatum by our leaders: Immediately reverse your "tame and timid" approach to your debt crisis and replace it with "shock and awe" before the debt contagion spreads to others' shores.

There. I said it.

I and a lot of other Americans are getting really pissed off