.. Optimistic article from feedBlitz yesterday to counter the drone of negativism being echoed by Rush-Bimbo-Con's vacuous peanut gallery.
" <http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38659312&f=64651&u=14554671> Sorry Collapsitarians, Doomers and Dystopians a Full Collapse Will Not Happen" Former President Reagan, still fondly remembered by a few of us who appreciate humor in high places, quipped that a recession is when your friend loses his job, but a depression is when you lose your job. yet bad as things are now, we aren't going there this time, and the USA may have even "turned the corner" . ..thanks primarily to an administration that took quick and decisive action, implementing controversial policy that is already starting to take effect. Check out the recent home sales data and stock market recovery. It is far too early to proclaim a miracle of biblical proportions, since of course things can swing back and forth for a while -- and yes, we will have to pay the piper eventually . but whether through luck or brilliance, the USA seems to have narrowly survived the worst scare in eighty years - and may have turned the corner in only three short months - following the "Nightmare on W Street". Can any country really avoid a "natural economic cycle" with science, good-planning and money policy? Time will tell. Who are these persistent doomsdayers anyway? [strange bedfellows, for sure ;-] Reworded from: http://dieoff.org/ * Luddites, anarchists, and anti-wealth activists trying the hasten collapse as soon as possible. * Survivalists and neocons: "collapse as the penalty for modern liberalism". * Radical environmentalists who see ecological and environmental collapse * Anti-globalists who see collapse as the penalty for globalism. * Anti-Americans and Commies rooting for collapse of America and "The West" * Financial doomers: who see a never-ending Depression as their way to get even * Peak-Everythingers and treehuggers, who want to see resources running out, even if they aren't LOL - what an assortment of pessimistic losers. Even the fast-sinking Warren Buffet is joining in that food-line -- after tasting the forbidden fruit of derivatives. He should bow-out gracefully from the media, in order to preserve a once proud memory. It can be argued that one more category needs to be added to complete the listing of "nattering nabobs of negativism", even if doing so alienates about a quarter of the population: that being the holier-than-thou fundamentalists . some of whom see (are being preached that) the whole economic crisis is payback for moral lapses in "those people" . everyone and everything they don't like about a diverse society. and who often proclaim (on punctual Sunday appearances spouting reworded biblical passages) -- that they alone will be spared the doom - usually by way of some kind of ill-defined "rapture." Give me a break. Even as genuinely nice and honest as many of these salt-of-the-earth folks are, they are being manipulated as the pathetic last remnants of the ancient meme: the "chosen-ones-meme" which was stolen from the Hebrews by modern Televangelists (on the way to the bank), and which more recently inspired the "Heaven's Gate" subcult: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) Don't forget your communion Kool Aid, 700 Clubbers, Rush has even added his favorite pain-killer to this batch, and be sure to include Pat R. in your last Will & Testament.
