econo-chaos

[mtmynd]

<center>Spend your money and support the economy.

or

Save your money because the economy is faltering. </center>

Can we have it both ways?

[stilltrucking]

I been tuning out the news about the the economy Cecil. Did you know it is a crime in Russia to spread fear about the economy.

I wish they would stop all the bullshit euphenisms about depressions and recessions and call a spade a spade (is that a racist remark?}

<center>Call it what it is, call it what we used to call it</center>

<center> A Panic</center>

<center> I think the middle way would be the answer</center>

<center>Save some spend some.</center>

<center>A hundred years from now they will write about the panic of 2008</center>

[mtmynd]

"Did you know it is a crime in Russia to spread fear about the economy."

I believe freedom of the press is outlawed also, isn't it?

A panic is good... er.. I mean a good word to encapsulate the overall pulse of the economic times, not only the U.S. but Europe and the free markets of the Pacific Rim, India and even China.

It's difficult to believe so many people are losing their wealth, their jobs, their futures and quite possibly their sanity in some cases, when the whole problem is just a good, old fashioned panic that really has so little basis to it. The stock market has not collapsed (yet) but merely returned to where it was 10 years ago (and we survived). Realistically any collapse is not anything but a return to a basic common-sense economy that doesn't rely on lies, greed and misconceptions like we've experienced the past 8 years under the Bush Economic Program (!). We've only got to redo the corruption factor and level out the numbers that constitute the stock market into facts and not a wished-for dream like we've been living thru during this most ridiculous of times.
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<center>btw:
I like the way you
centered,
colored
and used different
font sizes
here,
truck.
Very impressive
makes the topic
really
stand out.

[stilltrucking]

I am glad you like the formating Cecil, I picked that up from you.

I am not holding out Russia out as a paragon of freedom. But sometimes I wish I had freedom from the press.

I am tuning out constant reptition of the dire economic news. I flip channels as quick as I can when I hear a story being repeated for the umpteenth time. In fact I hardly watch any news on TV except for the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. I love that show. The only one that pays silent tribute to soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. You know the major networks can't afford a moment of silence.

I also watch the Nightly Business Report on PBS and listen to Marketplace on NPR whenever I have the time. And I seem to have oodles of time these days.
These are my golden years.

[mtmynd]

"But sometimes I wish I had freedom from the press."

I appreciate that key word, 'from', you injected into this sentence. I could make a list, quite long I sure, using 'freedom from ..." as a beginning, as a few others could, too, including you, truck.

I also am in agreement with another key word you used : 'repetition.' That's the main thing in televised news - repetition. I don't think it's because they intend to overkill a news article for the individual viewer as much as they want the viewer that hasn't seen/heard the news yet to see/hear it. Hence the repetition. Not a favorable quality in the vast majority of newscasts, especially the 24/7-types.

I've slowed my news consumption down to a more manageable affair since Obama was elected. Those were uniquely exciting times for me. But now the critics abound in commenting about Obama's picks, both pro and con. I personally don't give a squat about who he picks but rather how his picks will work with him in these troubled times. That will have to wait until he takes office and then some. I have plenty to do to occupy my time until then. Apparently you do too, with your "oodles of time."

[i like that word oodles. haven't heard or seen that used in quite awhile. thx]

[e_dog]

Panic!