25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enough To Believe That This Economic Recovery Is Real
If you listen to the mainstream media long enough, you just might be tempted to believe that the United States has emerged from the recession and is now in the middle of a full-fledged economic recovery. In fact, according to Obama administration officials, the great American economic machine has roared back to life, stronger and more vibrant than ever before. But is that really the case? Of course not. You would have to be delusional to believe that. What did happen was that all of the stimulus packages and government spending and new debt that Obama and the U.S. Congress pumped into the economy bought us a little bit of time. But they have also made our long-term economic problems far worse. The reality is that the U.S. cannot keep supporting an economy on an ocean of red ink forever. At some point the charade is going to come crashing down.
And GDP is not a really good measure of the economic health of a nation. For example, if you would have looked at the growth of GDP in the Weimar republic in the early 1930s, you may have been tempted to think that the German economy was really thriving. German citizens were spending increasingly massive amounts of money. But of course that money was becoming increasingly worthless at the same time as hyperinflation spiralled out of control.
Well, today the purchasing power of our dollar is rapidly eroding as the price of food and other necessities continues to increase. So just because Americans are spending a little bit more money than before really doesn’t mean much of anything. As you will see below, there are a whole bunch of other signs that the U.S. economy is in very, very serious trouble.
Any “recovery” that the U.S. economy is experiencing is illusory and will be quite temporary. The entire financial system of the United States is falling apart, and the powers that be can try to patch it up and prop it up for a while, but in the end this thing is going to come crashing down.
But as obvious as that may seem to most of us, there are still quite a few people out there that are absolutely convinced that the U.S. economy will fully recover and will soon be stronger than ever.
So the following are 25 questions to ask anyone who is delusional enough to believe that this economic recovery is real….
GO HERE to read the 25 questions.
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"the great American economic machine has roared back to life, stronger and more vibrant than ever before"
ReplyDelete1st off, I haven't seen a single quote from the gov. that could ever be paraphrased as such.
2nd, funny how all of a sudden the author doesn't want to use GDP as an indicator even though it has been a traditional indicator throughout. Lets just say I'm sure many of you who subscribe to the author's beliefs were touting the GDP during the Bush years.
11:11-If you look at the Federal money being pumped into the economy, and look at it's relationship to our GDP, you'll realize that this recovery is smoke and mirrors. Much like the 9.9% unemployment rate.
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