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Title: A Reluctance to Spend May Be a Legacy of the Recession
Topic: Economy
Written By: RickW
Date: Saturday, August 29 at 14:28
A reluctance to spend MAY be a legacy of the recession??
Even as evidence mounts that the Great Recession has finally released its chokehold on the American economy, experts worry that the recovery may be weak, stymied by consumers’ reluctance to spend.
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What these fools don;t realize is that when the spending goes up, so does pollution, depletion and the self destruction of the human race, buried in garbage, chemicals in the bloodstreams and hospitals bursting with epidemics that didn't exist before.

Ed Deak.

   

That's why they make the "circulation" button for the AC in the SUVs. So you don't have to deal with the pollution while hauling back the new 62 inch plasma!

Recovery!? Take your time, I like my variable mortgage rate at 1.7%, pretty soon the bank will be paying me to live at my place

   

NIMBY, Ed. The human race by-and-large, can't see (or smell) beyond it's proverbial nose. It may have worked t one point in our early history, but the long-range effects we are beginning to have on the biosphere are demanding we think at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Minutes_into_the_Future

And I don't knowe if we are capable of even that..........certainly the rightwingnuts aren't.

   

That, and a soggy commercial property market, high unemployment, spending cut backs by states and municipalities, slow investment by the business sector and retaliation by other countries to the Buy America policies.

   

While at the same time posting record deficits........

   

Given that ones personal environmental impact is determined by how much one spends, I wish that were true. Unfortunately, when the price of gas dropped , people dove right back into their big vehicles,and SUVs became the status symbol again.Consumer memories are very short.
Brent

   

[quote="Brent Swain"]Consumer memories are very short./quote]
The way cosumers are so Pavlovian in their reactions, I'd say this entire environmental thing is a charade.

Are we really so stupid and short-sighted (sheeple)that we actually need to be led to the "promised land" -- and once there have the fear of God's Green Gestapo put into us so we don't screw up and get kicked out of Eden the Sequel?

   

We do seem to be that stupid, with a very short memory....we actually need to be herded forcefully to the real "promised land" it seems, if there is such a thing. There is no one to do it. We are much more easily led into the valley of bankruptcies, breakups & debt, by false promises of those who are busy making their own promised land.

   

Then it would seem, we are doomed -- and we don't need no stinking comet to do it........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rench.html

Or this (from Harper's Weekly):
A deaf, blind, 16-year-old dog named Louie died after being left alone for hours in the hot car of Robin Starr, CEO of the Richmond, Virginia, SPCA.

   

I think that through all this we will be purged of people such as that SPCA CEO. I should amend my comment above by saying that MANY if not MOST people will be led as "sheeple". However there will always be those who will not, and maybe...just maybe....our civilization in the future will be a better one.

   

Ever the optimist, eh?

   

There is no doubt a huge human die off comming . Those with the greatest ablity to survive will be those least dependent on corprate infrastructure, and the most independent and self reliant, thus, those with the smallest environmental footprint.
Brent

   

Maybe -- but I think it was Robert Heinlein who opined that a gun was a great equalizer -- which makes independant people not as secure as one might think.....

   

Self reliant people in Canada are well armed. The priveledged will be waiting out side their supermarkets, waiting and guarding the useless while the self reliant are out fishing , hunting, and eating well. That happened in the last great depression.
My father said those who went to the cites looking for work starved, while those who stayed out of town ate well.
It will happen again.
Brent

   

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