Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:33:47 PM
Throughout history, telling the truth has prompted reactions ranging from embarrassment to rage to mock indignation, even when the truth is actually a positive, uplifting, empowering thing.
Isn’t it great to know that we can improve the economy, and some of it can be as easy as changing our attitude? You’d think that notion would be welcome. But we’re in a Presidential Election year, and the grow-government socialists are counting on people to 1) despair and 2) believe there is nothing they can do to improve their lot other than rely on Big Brother to take care of them.
And people buy into it! They think that they need bigger government to make their lives better. What is even more of a disconnect is that many of these people are the same people shelling out good money to get the kind of bull advice given in The Secret and a million other places that tell them if they use wishful thinking, they can get richer. Here’s Gramm giving free advice: change your attitude – and they go Jesse Jackson… er, I mean nuts.
This comes from Dana Bash’s piece on CNN’s website.
Phil Gramm, a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Thursday stood by his comment that the country is in a "mental recession," and said he was trying to say the nation's leaders, not its people, were "whiners."
Don’t backpedal. Many of the people are whiners. But the Dem leaders are even bigger whiners.
"We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline," said the former Texas senator. "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession."
Right on.
Gramm also said the media was responsible for fostering unnecessary anxiety over the state of the economy.
More truth.
These national and congressional leaders "blame speculators and oil companies for our problems, instead of presenting concrete programs for using energy more efficiently, or leaders who don't think we can compete with Mexico."
Really, has the Dem leadership in Congress done much more about the economy than whine? They need to reduce regulation and taxation, and let market cycles take their course.
"I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news ... it's become a mental recession," said Gramm. "We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary."
Exactly! But the facts won’t change the minds of Dems campaigners.
"I don't agree with Sen. Gramm," McCain said. "I believe that the person here in Michigan that just lost his job isn't suffering a mental recession. I believe the mother here in Michigan and around America who is trying to get enough money to educate their children isn't whining."
And this never happened during the dot-com boom? Please.
Obama said his administration would deliver more than "psychological" relief.
The only way you could do that, Obama, is be more like Gramm!
People should not vote socialist, fail to save and invest for themselves, and live in a way that brings instability and unnecessary costs to themselves, and then complain about the economy. Don’t like the economy? Live conservatively, and vote for limited government. Stop asking politicians to take care of you. Want better gas prices? Support my sensible energy plan.