Consumer confidence [unexpectedly] crumbled in July
This stuff never fails to amaze me. To whom was this unexpected? Apparently the good ol' boys down at the "Conference Board" were knocked off of their barstools by this astonishing discomfit.
To which I respond: I don't know what planet y'all are from but lemme bestow a little insight into my world.
The unemployment rate in the United States is the highest it's been in the last nine and a half years.
I'm looking forward in future times to a whopping trillion dollar deficit when all the while white collar jobs seem to drying up. But that's o.k. because 1in 10 tech jobs are being outsourced overseas.
I have a moron for a president whose main ambition in life seems to be annoying the world in general, insulting the intelligence of his own citizens and lining the pockets of his self-made plutocracy.
Due to the president's seemingly intractable bellicose unilateralism, he has provoked, annoyed and exasperated 50 years of deliberate statesmanship development with the world by "flipping the bird" to the U.N. and otherwise thumbing his nose at the rest of our modern-world "allies".
He has invaded and destroyed a country on the insistence that it posed imminent risk to the United States and the world when, as it turned out, had the WMD's know-how roughly equivalent to the construction of a pitch fork. There isn't any word how long we'll be enmeshed in rebuilding this country. One thing I do know is that it'll be expensive.
I live in a world where environmental issues are a thing of the past. Twenty years worth of water and air pollution standards have been deregulated. This is a president that steadfastly denies that there is such a thing as global warming. Here's guy who, in order to prevent forest fires - razes the forest.
All of this in the face of a country that truly is developing nukes and seems to be genuinely proud of that fact. Only North Korea seems to be of no concern to Bush while one only has to study a bit of history to confirm that NK is indeed one of the more volatile regimes in the world today. How about India and that whole Kashmir situation? Again, of no concern. How about Libya's regime? Nope. You guessed it - totally benign.
So am I off to the Macy's weekend sale? I probably should be. After all money will retain little of its value in the inevitable economic meltdown - or - just meltdown in general from Armageddon. But no, I'll save my pennies for my own unemployment.
Worse yet I'm being fed a line from conservatives who seem to be of the opinion that the state of the country is now merely the status quo. I should feel like a patriotic American for having liberated the Iraqis in a magnanimous military victory. Further, I and my political party have no way of achieving victory in 2004 because, we are, after all, just a bunch of gripers without any real agenda.
3:25:27 PM 
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