I have said at times--a little facetiously, I guess--that if people have not 'taken to the streets' by this point, then the only way that it would happen is if somehow television could be turned off nationwide for 72 hours.... Does anyone else wonder at the complacency with which we accept whatever is put in front of us?
Regarding how this relates to the economy but as a general observation as well, we have a good friend who maintains that everything happens in cycles, saying that if things look really bleak, and we think that they couldn't possibly become more bleak, then all they can do is get better. I tend not to be negative in outlook, but when I hear things like this, I wonder, to use one example, how our predecessors would have felt at the very beginning of the Great Depression if they had known how long it was going to last--and that it would be followed by World War II?
Many things seem not to look good, and the link that Sam posted seems just another piece that validates this....
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