Vladimir Putin says "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy....They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar."
http://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-u-p...191447751.html
Pretty tough (and politically-inspired) talk, but with certain elements of truth to it. It's pretty sad to be on the receiving end of a (mostly deserved) economic lecture from this jagoff.