They're drunk.
Posted on 11/24/2005 8:37:14 PM PST by Only Waxing
In homes across this country that subscribe to the New York Times, Americans will wake up on Thanksgiving morning to be told that the land they love is still in some kind of Great Depression. Of course, unemployment is at 5 percent, more Americans own their own homes than ever in history, and the average citizen has a higher net worth – meaning assets minus debt – than ever before, including during the supposed boom years of the late ’90s. Alas, none of that is important to the Times editorial staff...not even on Thanksgiving.
To be sure, this kind of economic mischaracterization is certainly nothing new to the mainstream media. However, stuck in the middle of an editorial about one of the nation’s most cherished holidays, on the very day in question, does make it a little more distasteful than usual:
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More of Krugmans opiate-induced ramblings?
They're drunk.
Yeah...the Commies are in a state of depression over things not going badly enough to make them happy.
It must be pretty depressing that Al Qaeda is starting to fray, that the Iraqis have voted and will soon vote again, and that Karl Rove wasn't indicted for anything at all, and that violent crime rates have continued to fall, despite the sunset of Clinton's "assault weapon" ban. The sorts of things that might indeed cause a major depression ... to socialists.
No, the ones that are in severe Major Depression are the members of the editorial board at the New York Times. They have been so thoroughly discredited that it isn't even funny. The Times, CBS (Dan Rather, Mary Mapes), CNN, all going into oblivion for being so dishonest and having no scruples.
The only reason to subscribe to the NY Times is the crossword........and you have to be a true scab-picker to care about that.
Well, the liberals are depressed. Isn't that the same thing?
http://finance.yahoo.com/
Dow 10,916.09 +44.66 (+0.41%)
Nasdaq 2,259.98 +6.42 (+0.28%)
S&P 500 1,265.61 +4.38 (+0.35%)
10-Yr Bond 4.474% 0.00
NYSE Volume 1,992,855,000
Nasdaq Volume 1,627,450,000
Some depression.
Apparently depression has suffered a new definition. The Great Depression was a "Collective poverty". And, while directly denied in the column, we are infact to be shamed that we are not in a "Collective poverty" today so long as one American lives in that financial state.
Smirnoff, when you absolutely, positively have to make Mo Dowd look like Catherine Zeta Jones.
Depression probably applies more aptly to The Times than the USA.
They are a dying medium,and they know it.
The New York Times is in a state of depression. The newspapers are goin' down!!!
Unfortunately for the Times....very few people read it!
Are the people of New York too stupid, too lazy, or too depressed to cancel their subscriptions to the New York Times?
To the Times... move to Europe, or better yet to France and wait until next August where you can see 15,000 old people die, while the kiddies take a six week holiday on the Mediterranean.
I've met these people. The Europeans hate our guts because we (well most of us) WORK, believe in free-enterprise, and capitalism.
When I meet a Liberal, I hand him two books. One by Karl Marx ... the other by Adam Smith.
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