Mark West
A rotten bunch
By Mark West
Weaving my way through Wally World, bewildered by the remodeling, I grazed toward the fruit section. Thankfully it hasn't moved! My mission was simple. Retrieve a bunch of grapes for my daughter. Grapes just happen to be her FAVORITE fruit snack...outside of just eating fruit snacks.
Perusing through bunches looking for one that appeared less damaged than the others, I found one suitable for her. Wally World's grapes tend to get nasty and mashed on the shelf so this process takes a little time. After checking out I went home.
Imagine my surprise as my wife began washing the grapes in our fruit cleaner, only to find all of the grapes on the inside of the bundle were rotten and moldy. GROSS! Looking so good on the outside, this bundle was rotten at its core.
As I thought about this I recognized how much that putrid bundle has in common with the economy. Our leaders perilously walk the tight rope attempting to convince us that the economy is recovering, when everything inside of the economy reveals the opposite.
Is any one else amused by the political theater? When Old Dub was President, the Dems downed the economy while the GOP hyped it and now that the "O" is President the roles have reversed. As usual, we have to do our own digging for the nuggets of truth about the economy.
Here's a novel idea that may just play well for our leaders in November...be HONEST with us! White‐washing the economy doesn't change the internal decay that exists. We, the people, know something isn't right with the economy, we're just waiting for them to tell us what.
Economist David Rosenberg stated that we are in a 30's style depression, not a recession. A technical indicator called the Hindenberg Omen has tripped twice in August. This technical indicator has preceded EVERY market crash. Even the creator of this technical indicator as pulled his exposure from the market.
The internal nature of the economy is the problem. More stimulus money only masks this problem. Its the economic equivalent of your doctor giving you cough medicine rather than trying to heal the illness that is causing the cough. You wouldn't want to treat the symptoms when you actually have hepatitis, would you?
I believe that what is on the inside will always eventually come out! All the covering in the world will actually make it worse when the reveal finally takes place.
So let's demand some economic honesty from our leaders. We don't want to hear about jobs saved and stimulus money spent. Neither of those deals with the true internal nature of the economy that is hemorrhaging uncontrollably.
Demand that they refrain from using empty and divisive rhetoric. Instead they can unite us behind the common goal of healing our sick and ailing economy. Let's lay this rotten bunch directly at their feet and demand they do something more than give a speech!
© Mark West
August 26, 2010
Weaving my way through Wally World, bewildered by the remodeling, I grazed toward the fruit section. Thankfully it hasn't moved! My mission was simple. Retrieve a bunch of grapes for my daughter. Grapes just happen to be her FAVORITE fruit snack...outside of just eating fruit snacks.
Perusing through bunches looking for one that appeared less damaged than the others, I found one suitable for her. Wally World's grapes tend to get nasty and mashed on the shelf so this process takes a little time. After checking out I went home.
Imagine my surprise as my wife began washing the grapes in our fruit cleaner, only to find all of the grapes on the inside of the bundle were rotten and moldy. GROSS! Looking so good on the outside, this bundle was rotten at its core.
As I thought about this I recognized how much that putrid bundle has in common with the economy. Our leaders perilously walk the tight rope attempting to convince us that the economy is recovering, when everything inside of the economy reveals the opposite.
Is any one else amused by the political theater? When Old Dub was President, the Dems downed the economy while the GOP hyped it and now that the "O" is President the roles have reversed. As usual, we have to do our own digging for the nuggets of truth about the economy.
Here's a novel idea that may just play well for our leaders in November...be HONEST with us! White‐washing the economy doesn't change the internal decay that exists. We, the people, know something isn't right with the economy, we're just waiting for them to tell us what.
Economist David Rosenberg stated that we are in a 30's style depression, not a recession. A technical indicator called the Hindenberg Omen has tripped twice in August. This technical indicator has preceded EVERY market crash. Even the creator of this technical indicator as pulled his exposure from the market.
The internal nature of the economy is the problem. More stimulus money only masks this problem. Its the economic equivalent of your doctor giving you cough medicine rather than trying to heal the illness that is causing the cough. You wouldn't want to treat the symptoms when you actually have hepatitis, would you?
I believe that what is on the inside will always eventually come out! All the covering in the world will actually make it worse when the reveal finally takes place.
So let's demand some economic honesty from our leaders. We don't want to hear about jobs saved and stimulus money spent. Neither of those deals with the true internal nature of the economy that is hemorrhaging uncontrollably.
Demand that they refrain from using empty and divisive rhetoric. Instead they can unite us behind the common goal of healing our sick and ailing economy. Let's lay this rotten bunch directly at their feet and demand they do something more than give a speech!
© Mark West
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