Cramer won't be satisfied until his grinning mug is on the cameo of the dollar bill.  Maybe someday, but it's not worthless just yet.

@ truth and honesty,

Lets try a little of that shall we? When you buy a house (as you use as an example) if your SMART, you buy a house that you can afford, that will go up in value (so as to be an inflation hedge), and you maintain it properly so that it will serve you well for decades. You don't spend your mortgage money on extravagant vacations and generally living beyond your means. While it's good to donate to charities you would not give your mortgage money to them, you would give from discretionary funds knowing that your employer is not going to give you more money just because you squander your income.
The American people in general have always known that the govt. needs to borrow money for infrastructure and unforeseen expenses and don't have a problem with that as these expenditures have a return.
BUT the U.S. has gone deeply in debt with one folly after another. 2 recent "wars" and counting that have run up the deficit by trillions and have accomplished nothing else. Trillions thrown away on so called "aid" programs to countries that are so dysfunctional they could never be helped. Trillions spent propping up dead companies and bailing out politicians buddies in the financial markets (paying off their gambling debts).
Americans aren't pissed off that the govt. borrows money, their pissed off that their money is being thrown around like confetti at a parade and they have to do without and pay for it .
Then we see Cramer here today telling us essentially that we should just shut up and take it with a smile and say thanky massah sir thanky.

I am not making this stuff up. The gap between the rich and poor is at it's widest since the roaring 20's. Search it.

So because Bernanke's predecessors were even worse than him, we should celebrate him ? Hey the economy isn't in as bad as shape as when the sub-prime mortgage debacle hit the fan. We should be running up the stock market to dizzying heights ! Perhaps the 1 % celebrate the actions of Bernanke, as the gap between the rich and poor is increasingly widening. What has the stimulus been- $2 trillion ? Has the middle class seen any of it ? How much cash is sitting on the sidelines ? -but we need more to sit on the sidelines, while the federal banks pay interest on the excess reserve ? That's okay, the government will redistribute the wealth- though they will do nothing to generate wealth. What happens when all of the pie is eaten ? In the meantime, watch the middle class evaporate. Cheers.

And why should this call for a celebration?  When we have 15% inflation and the only option is to raise interest rates should we then change and celebrate higher interest rates to curb inflation while we watch homes sales sink into the toilet?  Even little me understands interest rates historically in the 5% range seem to offer the most financial stability and growth.  Celebrating anything resulting from these phoney low rates is just that Phoney!  You want to spur growth raise interest rates.  But oh yea Washington DC has backed us into a corner to where we have to have old folks suffer from low fixed rates because the Politicians spent us into oblivion to cover the sins of the rich on Wall Street.  This is nothing to cheer about Cramer. So admit it Cramer your buds on Wall Street and Big Bankers; of which Bernanke is a member in great standing, need prison to help remind them of their responsibility for the sins they committed against the American People.  But oh yea remember you are sooo arrogant like them you assume zero responsibility for what you say and what you have done as well.  Bernanke belongs in Prison!

JIM, I THINK YOU SPELL IT OUT PRETTY GOOD FOR THE REST OF US LAYMEN, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

So what if our deficit is more than our GDP in a year. My mortgage is more than I take in in a year also. How many of you live on a cash basis? People in their 70's and 80's complaining that the US should be debt free like themselves have forgotten that they once took out a mortgage on their home, paid for it for 20 or 30 years and only now own the house and are cash only.

Let's have some rational arguments for a change, shall we? There are very few commenting on here who buy everything with cash, including their home, so let's just stop the ridiculous rationales and false equivalencies. The US government budget (and deficit) has absolutely no comparison to your personal money philosophy or situation.

Let's look at it a different way: What is your total indebtedness compared to your income? The US GDP is around $14 trillion a year. So they could pay off the debt in a little over a year if they did nothing but pay down the debt. Lets also consider that about $3  trillion of that debt they owe to themselves through Social Security obligations the same as if you borrowed from your 401K balance or whole life insurance policy. It is money you owe yourself at that point, not a creditor. So when you remove that from the equation, they could pay off the debt in less than a year. But in reality, taxable income is really all they can use to pay down that debt. Hence the importance of determining who is going to pay what rate. Considering that over the last 10 years, the top 1% have seen their income rise due mainly to the tax cuts enacted in 2001. And the rest of us have paid more and more and seen our real income go down.

(There are some nice easy to read graphs on this page)
from http://www.rationalr​evolution.net/articl​es/american_income_t​axation.htm:

"As you can see the top 1% did indeed receive the largest decrease in their tax burden.  The tax burden was generally shifted to middle and upper middle income receivers by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001."

If you go back to the 50's, 60's and 70's, you will see that taxation was much, much higher on the top earners and we as a nation had some of the biggest increases in GDP that we have ever had. And income inequality was much lower than it is today.

Those that benefit from this WANT you to do their bidding for them. It won't help you, it will only help them. It will also hurt you, because the money has to come from somewhere. But I guess Americans would rather see the disabled and elderly die and all the money go to building a war machine. About 50% of the total budget goes to the war machine, not welfare recipients. In fact welfare only accounts for about 2% of the budget. 

But yet you continue to support the idea that somehow you will get rich but in reality, the chances that you will move up economically are actually going down as a possibility every year. Kind of like a reverse lottery. But there are thousands of brilliant people on here and many sites who swear that they don't want Communism because that would be wrong. Were we a Communist country in the 50's and 60's? As a former Air Force brat who grew up in the 60's and 70's, I can tell you without any doubt that this country is much more like a Communist country now than it ever has been in the past (at least in my lifetime). Why? Because the 1% weren't brainwashing the proletariat to enable their stealing the way they are now. They run the show and you are all their puppets. I learned to question everything and everybody, not accept what someone is trying to ram down my throat. But I guess others are more tractable to 'whatever they've been told' mantra. Think for yourselves. Do some research. Think about it objectively from many different viewpoints instead of the one they are lying to you with. That is what America is supposed to be - independence. That also includes the freedom to believe facts instead of some spin that isn't supported by reality.

Line up bankers for your drink. When you get your sip you can finish digging the well and install the fence to keep out the masses. We'll give them 12 ounces a day in return for their life's savings.

Bernanke, like Greenspan, has contributed to the problem not made it better. Now the talk of QE3 is out there and we DO NOT need QE3, our money is worthless enough already. Bernanke needs to be fired!