Posted by
lone rider on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:53:10 AM
We pragmatic conservatives know that it's only human nature for many today to be pessimistic Talking Head pundits.
We're always looking down, so of course the glass looks half empty.
But like all things too, a different perspective reveals that it's actually Half Full!
We also know everyone today is an expert and we all know that an "Arm Chair Quarterback and the Monday Morning Quarterback" both have 20/20 vision, try it from the trenches and one's perspective changes radically.
For Mr. Bernanke to issue a grim prognostication that NEW YORK will suffer 1000s of lost jobs in the next 24 months, serves no one, much less those; weak at heart and lacking in spirit.
Firstly, he's not Nostradamus and you've got to stretch credulity anyway to even make his visions work.
BUT Mr. Bernanke's not paid to be a Soothsayer, a Mystic or a Fortune Teller, though he does deal in Fortunes, and
We already have Barbra Streisand and Shirley Maclaine to tell us how it should be and how it's been, respectively.
Secondly, had Mr. Bernanke soothed that New York would continue their initial triumphant 9/11 comeback and even thrive beyond expectations and will probably be adding 1000s of New Jobs in the very near future,
what's the worst that could happen?
He was Right and his comments helped spur-on a contagious enthusiasm and jobs just took-off,
or,
He was wrong? So what's new?
Our Mother's all told us ; "If you don't have anything good to say, keep your mouth shut"!
That would go along way with Speculators on Wall Street too.
Thanks Mom.
Thirdly, Mr. Bernanke are you out of your freak'n mind?
We've all been stuck with "The FED" and "Income Tax" ever since that great Democrat President Woodrow Wilson. Guess he didn't have a Soothsayer at the FED yet to see into the future to 1929!
Heck, I forgot, there's no problem,
just ask Mr. Paulson to send all those "Soon To Be, Out of Work" New Yorkers a check out of "Our Kitty"! meow
The Democrats did give the Treasury Dept. the solemn responsibility to "insure and guarantee" our General Welfare, didn't they?
I don't think our New Socialist Constitution states; "promote the general Welfare," any longer!
Sure will be funny if the DEMs don't get control of the Printing Presses in November to have a Matched Set with their Congress Purse Strings,
then watch The About Face.
lone rider 10-15-08
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