Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (102658)	1/31/2009 7:06:35 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 544655

I'm reacting, again, to something a little further upstream. Then perhaps your complaint would have been more appropriately addressed to the upstream commentator. <g> I was reacting to the sense of entitlement to the extraordinarily high standard of living that we have experienced until this recent crisis. I consider that a flaw in the national character. I know that things are really tough for some people. Yes, Virginia, bad things do happen to good people. But some of this attitude is people just being spoiled wimps. I don't think that enabling the latter is healthy. We were never promised a rose garden. I know that you know that sometimes you just have to suck it in. The argument being that the current situation doesn't qualify as a crisis, because unemployment is not at 25%. Yet. Of course we are experiencing a crisis. The question is how much of the consequence is crisis-level and how much inconvenience. Do we really need four kinds of mustard? What it seems I'm seeing is the same loss of proportion I remember after 9/11 in certain quarters where people were scared to go to shopping centers, where they wanted to eliminate all the Arabs and Muslims or nuke Mecca. I called people on that one and I'm calling people on this one.