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Worst Economy Since Depression Continues to Grow
DotPenn.com ^ | 05-08-2008 | Sven Waring

Posted on 05/08/2008 6:56:46 AM PDT by SvenWaring

Economists received gloomy news last week that the worst economy since the depression grew by over a half percent.

“At this rate I’ll be dead before most of humanity is killed and the rest of us are forced to endure a hand-to-mouth existence as subsistence farmers and mastodon hunters,” Malbert Crickendale, economist for the DotPenn financial report said. “I wish the Democrats in Congress would get off their asses and do something to speed up this demise.”

Crickendale said that mainstream media’s continual harping on the “subprime implosion,” “credit massacre,” “unprecedented foreclosures” and “Brittany’s meltdown” should have had far worse effects on mass consciousness by now.

“It’s like too many people are watching Lost, or something,” Crickendale said. “People need to wake up and take care of the demise of their own destinies here!”

(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: depression; economy; humor; satire

1 posted on 05/08/2008 6:56:46 AM PDT by SvenWaring
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To: SvenWaring

Satire is running thick today.


2 posted on 05/08/2008 6:59:55 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: SvenWaring

Imagine that! Must stick really really deep in the MSM’s collective craw. Love it!


3 posted on 05/08/2008 7:00:54 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die (Islam:Truly the opium of the morons with apologies to Karl Marx)
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To: mnehrling
Now all we need are the Ron Paul supporters telling how doomed we are and how ignorant we are not to see it...
4 posted on 05/08/2008 7:01:43 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: mnehrling
More like assaninity.
5 posted on 05/08/2008 7:01:57 AM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: ejonesie22

Want to ping them?


6 posted on 05/08/2008 7:02:45 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling; SvenWaring

***Satire is running thick today.***

You should have welcomed Sven to FR too.

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7 posted on 05/08/2008 7:09:46 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun owner, who will "Just say No to BO (or HRC).")
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To: mnehrling
HELL NO!

They'll find their way here anyways. Just like Dems, good news pisses them off...

8 posted on 05/08/2008 7:09:54 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: mnehrling

Jimmy Carter’s stagflation was worse.


9 posted on 05/08/2008 8:34:00 AM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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