Broader unemployment measure at 17.5%

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Originally Posted by Bob Dog

Any one who is as adamnantly sure of themself utterly lacks the depth of consideration necessary to have any truly meaningful insight into a problem.

You think anyone has time to listen to someone who has thought the problems through and can offer contemplative insight into the problem from various angles while holding a rearview mirror to history in case it's repeating or echoing itself at the moment?

Naw man, Glenn Beck is in charge. Sloganeering and lowest common denominator populist drivel rule the day. Sit back and enjoy a piece of history being made. At least people like you and I will gain an understanding of how easy it was to incite the masses during a few other unfortunate chapters in human history.

Government is bad. Government is too big. Government tries to run our lives. Government officials are overpaid. Taxes are too high. Your ideas are too socialist/capitalist/elitist/liberal/conversative (whatever suits the day).

I've never seen anything like this. People talking like if only we had no government everything would be alright. The name for that is anarchy and anarchy is as far from alright as you can get.

One last thing. Some people lately are citing recent government failures as proof that government is the problem and not the solution. We're coming off of 28 years of deregulation and the castrating of every government agency that could have helped us avoid the great recession. You can't cut funding for something and then use the reduced capability of that entity as an argument for further cuts in funding. It's a "strange loop". It's illogical. It's populist drivel.