A Metaphor?

Air France flight 447 is a metapohor for the U.S. economy. It has crashed in a huge sea of debt and we have sent out an armada of financial rescue vehicles. Sadly, Capt. Geithner and First Officer Summers are in charge, and all they have managed to do is find dead bodies and the wreckage of the old ship of state. And they have blamed the crash on the Greenspan/Paulson air speed sensors. You might draw parallels between the number of bodies recovered (16?), the total number still missing and the job loss rates. Dog paddling lessons are recommended