Posted on 08/31/2008 7:39:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
That's because most people are not actually feeling abnormally "pinched." The most that incessant proclaiming of Depression and Catastrophe can accomplish is to make many people think that other people they hear about are not doing so well while they, themselves are doing okay right now and well, we shouldn't rock that particular boat too much. Also recessions now are not nearly the problem that they were a generation ago. Herman Kahn, the original 'futurist" and the best such to date wrote about the then "Coming Economic Boom" and believed that, essentially, hard times would be at an end with the next "boom." He was writing before Reagan and we have not had anything like "hard times" since. Our recessions and downturns since then have been hard times only by comparison with the top of the boom and only in the numbers. It is sort of like the problem of The Poor. It never goes away because The Poor is defined as the bottom 10%. There is always a bottom 10% even if that class drives new cars and lives in 4brm 2bth nice yd homes.
Yup, "change" is going to be all we have left in our wallets if he becomes the President.
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