Sound Familiar?

"His city audience, whose minds were obsessed with the iniquities of the Lloyd George Budget and the fearful hardships it had inflicted upon property and wealth - little did they dream of the future - did not comprehend in any way the significance or the importance of what they heard. They took it as if it had been on of the ordinary platitudes of the ministerial pronouncements upon foreign affairs." - Churchill's assessment of the state of affairs with the British bankers following Lloyd George's speech to the Banker's Association 1911 during the Agadir Crisis. Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, Volume 1.

One doesn't have to work very hard at assessing how American society feels regarding the current crisis with North Korea. Their senses have been so severely and brutally assaulted by the Obama's massive and wasteful spending that we have little time to worry about the goings on in a distant nation - events that were brought on by this and previous negligent administrations.

Update: To put this post in context here is a link to Lloyd George's speech on 21 July 1911 at Mansion House.