OT .... Thoughts on ..

On Feb 9, 10:06*pm, "Larry L" wrote:
wrote

All the whinging and whining merely serves to sap consumer confidence,
and lower values still further,which destroys jobs, among other
things.

TL
MC

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CONFIDENCE

this is one thing that strikes me as one of the biggest challenges facing
our 'leaders'

We have an entire 'side' that is actively trying to erode confidence, hoping
for personal political gain at the expense of the country

We have a leader that tells us daily how bad things are going to be,
certainly partly for political gain, but also because we need to be warned
to avoid panic, prepare, and plan for recovery, personal and worldwide.

'Pollyanna' confidence is out of line, *reality needs to be understood .....
"their plan can't work, so just suffer until you can elect us" efforts to
undermine recovery are,
well,
efforts to undermine recovery .... pick you own words for that,

mine come close to 'traitor'

Larry L ( who thinks effort, real effort, even effort that falls sort of
'ideal goals' ... always outperforms bitching, .... but knows the wingnuts
prefer to bitch, Rush has built his fortune on it, Mr Negativity that he
is )

This is also basically a scam, large chunks of the media rely on
disaster and contention to sell their "news". Eventually, many
sensible people realise that this is actually worth less than a fart
in a hurricane, but if enough believe it, it has deleterious effects.
Also, the operating word here is "sensible". There are surprisingly
few sensible and honourable people, especiall when it comes to
personal gain or power.

Basically the same thing that destroyed this newsgroup as a fishing
forum. If enough people undermine something, it eventually collapses.

Political systems in many (democratic) countries are largely based on
contention of basic views on how things should be run. In practice, it
does not actually make a great deal of difference who actually
governs, as long as things are stable. When things start to go wrong,
mismanagement makes them worse, it is also largely irrelevant which
political party does the actual mismanagement, the effects are the
same.

Major issues like overpopulation, the rapid depletion of resources,
and a host of other things, are barely even sensibly addressed by
various governments.

Whatever. No point in adding my voice to the clamour here.

TL
MC