Also I'd say you can blame the economic crisis on religion. The crash and virtually all the problems we have today are a product of shitty monetary policy. Conservatives used to be great on monetary policy, but then the fuckstick religious wackos took over, and Milton Friedman's sound monetary economics turned into W Bush's faith-based administration. It's no wonder everything fucked up when the Economy Party became the Jesus Party. Tack on a whole bunch of dumbass socially regressive regulations from both parties, and you get what we have had for years