The Never-ending Recession

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to spit of this damned recession. I’m sick of the lying that it’s not a recession. The fact is, that no matter what the GDP figures say or any other economic indicator says for that matter, the economy still sucks and every politician, every CEO, and every economist who can’t ante up should be fired for it. Over a decade ago I lived in a country that had a far worse economy than the U.S. does now and no matter how much GDP growth they recorded, the lived like they were in a recession. People just didn’t spend any money, save for beer, cigarettes, and other necessities. But there they were used to living like that and they were less materialistic than Westerners and thus made more with less and were happy about it. They made 1/10^th of our median income but they smiled more in general.

Americans, meanwhile, tend to get snippy when you take away their spoils. I am by nature an optimist.  I know you can never blame anyone solely for a recession, but I felt like it was time to start laying out some of the blame. There’s so much of that to go around. Later on, we can discuss payback.