A COOL ECONOMY AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS

The economy is cooling and the job market is tanking. When will people realize that predictions by the government are too often wrong. Economists were predicting a rise in jobs by 60,000. Instead, 17,000 jobs were lost. That is a rather significant figure and does not bode well for the predictors. In fact, one can hardly trust the government, Wall Street, banks, underwriters, CEOs, and the list goes on way too far to try to list all.

In a speech in Kansas on Friday, President George Bush acknowledged that the US economy was going through a rough patch and urged lawmakers in Washington to pass an economic stimulus package.

Wouldn't it have been kinder to the public to have warned people a long time ago not to believe the lies coming out of Washington. As Groucho Marx said it so well, :

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

"The truth about lying is that people do it so long as it works. Often what appears a tolerance for lies stems from not learning to reliably detect and deal with them. It's a science - one too many of us don't adequately study." writes Kathleen Reardon, a blogger.

John Ridley wrote: "Rush Limbaugh grandly announced on his radio program that he might not support the Republican presidential nominee in this coming election cycle, as none pass his conservative litmus test. " You may choose to read the whole article or not, but this is the last paragraph: "There is, then, a reason why Limbaugh announced so grandly that he would not endorse any candidate. Not, I suspect, because there truly wasn't a candidate he could back. Rather because even if he did, probably no one would care."