I thought I detected at one stage that the placid waters of Lake Success had not been ruffled at all by the storms of Our Own Economic Crisis and that, in the comfort of the Turkish bath, he had not become more fully acquainted with the efforts of the Treasury to deal with the question of settlements altogether.

Of course, his solution to the challenges faced in that global marketplace is to go and join all the countries that are facing problems, not to tackle Our Own Economic Crisis that his party left us.