Quote from chasinfla:
the whiners, who, without the initiative of those who have learned to ignore them, would doubtless starve in the streets like road warriors. but of course, whiners will <i>always</i> 'piss in someone's cornflakes.' It's what they do.
Not singling anyone out here.
God bless America!
Quote from vulture:
Elaine Chow is just another symptom of the ongoing disease...Nothing more, nothing less...A bureaucrat with total allegiance to the agenda...Her replies to all questions are rehearsed, flat, cold and completely devoid of any emotion...When Mark Haines pressed her last year about her ridiculous spin, week after week on the economic data, her response was "listen, I have an MBA from Harvard Business School, I know how to read the data"...It was beautiful, it brought her right out of her rehearsed self to show what a self absorbed and narrowminded bureaucrat she really is...
Quote from limitdown:
Not singling anyone out here, but, call it whinning,
call it caring,
call it the worst Depression and hard economic times without cause (lack of direction),
call it seeing the reality of what's upon us for what it is,
call it whatever you want
after all that's what spinning is:
trying to see reality in other lights that make it less horrid...
Tell that to your neighbors, and County Gov't boards who have no jobs, or seeing their taxes rise and their benefits terminated.
Tell it to all those who did have their own entrepreneuarialship work who no longer have that or the ability to restart...
Or just call it whinning and suggest we look elsewheres' for a picture more to our liking....
Quote from chasinfla:
easy does it. it's not a 'depression era crisis.' unemployment was higher in the early '80's. remember what followed that?
(in case you don't, it was the largest post war economic expansion in modern history).
Quote from limitdown:
Labor Secretary Elaine Chow putting a spin on the 640,000 persons reentering the unemploymnet ranks being viewed as positive.
What world is this dreamer in?, certainly not the unemployed world.
This directly effects the ability of the populace to purchase products, and effect earnings and effect dividends, work, profits, stock prices and the market.
Pity, shuch a Depression Era crisis is being viewed in such glowingly positive terms, instead of the absolute diaster and horridly omminous barometer of our present conditions that it really is.