Posted on 03/29/2014 6:01:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
See my post just made on Judge rules on Cornell, Ithaca....... which bears on this subject somewhat
The point is that people somehow assume that we are not in as bad a shape as in the thirties because they do not see long lines in front of soup kitchens but we have millions who would be out begging for food if they were not being supported by EBT and other benefits paid for by phony money. If unemployment were calculated the same way as in the thirties the unemployment numbers would be as bad as the thirties or worse. Also we have a much tinier percentage of people who live on the land and know how to produce their own food now, I see the current system as being far more fragile than the system of the thirties. Far more productive now in terms of production per manhour but far more fragile.
The media sets the table before us,
They serve it up warm and steamy, fresh
out of the Bulls ass.
Yes, student loans, forgot to say that. It is not only the gov’s fault, he also did not keep up with his monthly payments, also he could have worked something out with them I suppose.
Of course it was a sweeping generalization. But it is certainly more true than the obverse which is your position.
However, you can’t show me plenty of examples of the what American’s call ‘the media’ publishing both CPI metrics, I asked you to and you only posted 1 and asked me to wait until April. Remember there are thousands of home town papers, local radio and tv stations and economic reporting has been degraded by the decline of the media in general.
Against my generalization of the entire media you pointed to a microscopic, highly specialized sub-set of the media partially aimed at the very economic professionals who exploit American’s ignorance.
I’ve seen you post many times and it seems to me that you like to argue for the sake of arguing as in this case.
I'll ping you on April 15th. AP and Reuters are not a "microscopic, highly specialized sub-set of the media." Again, your fantasy . . . that only financial sources post the information crucial to the point you are trying to make.
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