US gubmint shutdown + default + subprime sequel?

[Vladimir]

I think lemur's remarks about investment bankers go some way toward explaining why growth is in disrepute. The article I referred shows a similar reason why. But in the main it's environmentalism and sustainability what did it. They gave us guilt and disinvestment and pandaworship. Oh, and luke-warm soda's.

AII

Lemur gave an excellent example of how and illustrates what is holding our economy back. I hate thinking this but one of the good things about the polarized past is that it motivated people to build things, regardless of how destructive those things were.

I believe he's referring to Northern Virginia, which is known as NoVa in the DC area. It is the most prosperous of the three DC areas (the other two being DC proper and southern Maryland). If that is what he is referring to, he is using it as a disparaging term to indicate that the writer is the equivalent of a 'Washington elite' who is (1) a Democrat, (2) overpaid, and (3) so highly educated he's become stupid.

Easy there. It's easy to read too deeply into text.