Financial fiesta for whom?

Apparently, someone forgot to inform me that the good times are back again. According to Tom Raum’s Sunday AP article, the past two years have been one big economic party. Raum even goes one step further by insinuating that those economists and politicians who had enough intellectual foresight to envision ‘The Great Recession’ could damage the ‘recovery’ because “their warnings could become self fulfilling prophecies if they frighten enough people into holding onto their wallets.”

But wait, it gets better. “They’re a minority, but a vocal one, and they are hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.”

Stop traffic, he’s not finished yet! “Are double-dippers becoming party poopers?”

Break out the nachos and the guacamole! Apparently some feel that the past two years has been a proverbial kegger at the Delta house. Perhaps hobo kegs stands will replace long term unemployment as a key economic indicator. Obviously Raum hasn’t heard of the state of Michigan, nor has he driven through any town in southern Ohio, where he would sometimes find unemployment at over 50 percent and a staggering rate of homelessness. It is a sad mark on our country and civilization, that in 2010 and in the richest country in the world, some people still live in these conditions.

Only in America does there exist an Orwellian duplicity, where right is wrong and where economic quacks are lauded as maestros.
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