Many Freepers are flat clueless, because they refuse to study about the liquidity crisis. In a way, I don’t blame them for being cynical and distrusting what they read in the MSM, and thinking the worst of the leftists. No surprise there.
But the bulk of Freepers are just too busy or too apathetic to really study this liquidity crisis. As a result, you get ignorant asinine posts like these on a continuing, ongoing basis. Lots of people here honestly think this is nothing but either a manufactured crisis or an all out lie while the economy is really not so bad.
Just mind-numbing to think people could be so ignorant or so stupid.
Maybe it is not the bulk anymore, as more are feeling the downturn in their immediate pocketbooks. But there are many that must be wealthy enough retirees or who haven’t been hit in their personal employment, to be insulated in their day to day life, and are just clueless about the details of this true financial crisis, now economic crisis.
Sadly, I see too many posts of Freepers “I’m busier than ever...” or “I’m working my butt off...” and I think “Lucky you”.
One person being insulated from what is going on does not a good economy make. Yes, it’s not as dier as it was a few months ago with the $4 gas prices (and accompanied higher food prices), but one a dime it could go back the other way. Americans have a way of lulling themselves back to sleep like those giants in cartoons. The little mouse just plays a tune and back to sleep they go. That is exactly what it reminds me of.
There’s no denying the liquidity crisis. There’s no denying what’s going on is a huge problem. And, there’s also no denying that some people are getting their rocks off on promoting a U.S. apocolypse. Facts are one thing. But hysteria and the promotion of hysteria is quite another.