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Originally Posted by roachboy
something that baffles me, and which i've been hearing in various publick houses and reading here from more conservative folk, is this idea that what's happening economically is somehow really a matter of attitude---so there's no real problems---rather people are just getting bummed out by some bizarre decision on the part of unnamed but somehow pervasive Forces of Opinion Management to focus on bummer information---the flip of that is the "argument" that if we all just put on a happy face, that everything would fix itself.
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as a fiscally conservative individual, I don't subscribe to the head in the sand mentality of "just be cheery and put on a happy face."
I see that there's some deep trouble when looking at the mechanisms and situations that are being posited just based on the simple numbers that are announced.
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