People do amazingly stupid things with their cars. I shouldn’t be surprised at this, but it still seems shocking that people drive into moving traffic while talking on a cell phone and eating a hamburger. I suspect the broken glass in their food surprised them, too. That was something to see, let me tellya.
Some people like to be part of a large bureaucracy. They enjoy being “cogs” more than they enjoy being “free”. I struggle with this fact.
Republican administrations are, in the last 30 years, the ones that pile up the national debt. Numbers don’t lie. Why am I still hearing about “tax and spend” Democrats? Is that different than “borrow money and spend our children’s future” Republicans? (I say this as an independent – I hate both parties with an equally strong and burning passion.)
I read a comment that said “there’s nothing wrong with the economy, people simply are afraid to spend so things keep spiraling down.” I’d to suggest that the people who continue to write these comments read a book or two about the field called Behavioral Economics/Finance. The moment you start thinking “the economy” is somehow independent of human psychology, you’re always wrong.
My week always starts off completely free and open. By Tuesday, I’m booked until the next week. I can’t understand how this happens. It’s true at work and at home.
There are 53 days until the Nashville marathon. There are 75 days until the Cleveland Marathon, if you are counting. I’m not running both marathons, of course. I’m just looking at the calendar.
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From a Minyanville article:
“An anti-spending, anti-consumerist mindset is taking hold across the socioeconomic spectrum. This shift cannot be stopped by flowery talk from Washington – or by vilifying Wall Street in Congress. Spending, the hobby of choice for nearly 3 decades, is becoming the thing not to do. Saving, which had begun to seem positively un-American, is once again in vogue.
This isn’t some transitory fad we’ll soon forget when the good times roll once again. The current crisis will be felt in the American psyche for decades to come.
Who knows – for our generation, cutting up credit cards may be our answer to the burning of bras.”
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