Blertles you had my mind boggled till I realised you come from N.Z. Here in the U.S people were running for the hills to pull there money out of banks for fear of a total collapse and since the Government only insures each person up to $100,000 things just went bust. I have not seen as bad a time here in my 47 years on the planet. Then to top it off I live in N.Y which is one of the most expensive cities in the world to begin with it is just a mess. Then to add insult to injury we have a mayor who is worth over 20 Billion Dollars and you have to here him yaping about how it is tuff for all of us and we have to ride it out.What the hell does he know about roughing it when he is one of the richest guys in the world who came in and raised the price of everything from parking tickets to cigarretes which are just about $10 a pack now. I would also like to know how he came into office 8 years ago worth 5 Billion and in 8 years quadrupled his money while everyone is going broke. Yes Mr Mayor thank you for crunching Park $@!&# in with 500 high rise condos. I guess we know how you made that money and how you totaly disregarded term limits and said you were not leaving. TALK ABOUT BALLS