You said — “Anyone who claims we’re not in a depression is deserving of an officer slot in the Ostrich Brigade.”
I think we have a lot of those officers on Free Republic... :-)
A lot of people on here said we were in a bubble and I didn’t believe them, so I guess I was an officer of that brigade too. I have since been demoted, however.
People who are talking "Depression" need to discuss the meaning with someone who's actually lived through one. Poverty has been defined down to "only Basic cable and two Ipods".
Things aren't good, but so long as you continue to see lines at the local "Applebee's" and a goodly number of cars on the road....we're not even close to a Depression.
With many volunteer enlistments, too.