One way to sum up the great recession: we're still feeling the ripple effect. Many cities have been reduced to rubble where there was once great industry and a thriving community with a promise of a greater, more successful tomorrow. The American dream of owning a home, cars and property reduced to nothing more than just that, a dream. As we witnessed in Anthony Bourdain's documentary, "Parts Unknown": Detroit, one of the greatest cities of progress and manufacturing now covered with graffiti and littered, empty buildings. Run down houses, and huge sky skyscrapers selling for only a few million dollars. ("Of the 13 recessions that the American public had endured since the Great Depression of 1929-1933, none has presented a more punishing
