Next thing you know he'll be hitting up Ron Paul for a gold dealer

North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr says we're in a depression, agreeing, oddly enough, with liberal labor expert Robert Reich.

Then he reveals how a national leader reacts to a financial crisis:

“On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, ‘Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take," Burr said, according to the Hendersonville Times-News. "And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.’ I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.”