Just in case yesterday's news of a bounce on the stock market gave you a glimmer of hope, Riptide is here to remind you that your future is bleak and depressing. The CBC recently compared Florida to "a terrified cardiac patient," lying awake at night, praying the angina will pass. "The confidence games here were ruinous," writes Neil Macdonald. "The
housing fraud was industrial scale. The economic shortsightedness
bordered on lunacy."
Macdonald hops from Lehigh Acres ("Some of these homes--past
