Warren Buffett's Thank-you Note to "Uncle Sam"

Warren Buffett wrote an obnoxious thank-you note to "Uncle Sam" as an op-ed in today's New York Times.

Buffett is an excellent (though overrated) investor, but behind the aw-shucks Omaha façade is a much more "complex" character. He has a lot to answer for.

He is also in the complacent, "rah-rah America" class of investors who think that because the baby boomers lived such pampered lives, misfortune has been permanently banished from history.