I mean, really, folks, let me hep ya out here:
1979 - 1982
Unemployment: 8%
Interest Rates: 13%
Mortgages: 18% - 20%
Economy: Stagnant
Political: Malaise (diagnosis of Jimmy Carter)
I've come to assume the following about the folks making most of the noise regarding how really, really terrible things are today; they have no experience with:
1 - terrible times,
2 - history,
3 - comparative analysis, and (yes, that's an AND, not an OR)
4 - independent study.
I find myself asking the following:
1 - If the educational establishment values this thing they call "critical thinking" so much, how come young people can't do it?,
2 - Where have folks' perspective gone (maybe they didn't have it to start with?)?, and
3 - Whatever are these characters going to do and say when hard times actually arrive again? (Scary thought, that one, eh?).
Please skip the George Bush/Iraq War thing for the following reasons:
1 - Presidents come and go, and
2 - We're ALWAYS at war.
2007-11-13
03:46:20
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