It felt better the last time this was big news.
Smart money is on taking whatever you earn and spending it on cheap shiny stuff as quickly as possible. Stop paying that mortgage immediately. Do not, under any circumstances sell any stocks, as you will be needing them when the supermarkets stop stocking Charmin. Incorporate immediately, former subsidiaries for your children as well. Remember the first $455,000 of their earnings are already spent.
Aren’t you glad we averted disaster? Don’t you wish everybody did?
Special to the Slackoisie: This is not a boomer issue. This is a Republican deregulation issue. (FYI, Republican refers to one of two primary national political parties, in which President George W. Bush, now completing his second term of office, is a member.)
In the words written for candidate Ronald Reagan during a debate with President Jimmy Carter, “Are you better today than you were 4 years ago?”
Market Close: Dow -369.88, NASDAQ -84.43. So where are all those brilliant people who were emailing me before the bailout to tell me what an idiot I was to doubt how the bailout would “avert disaster.” Haven’t heard from you guys lately. Wassup?
Remember all those talking heads saying that the bailout would stop the stock market from going into freefall. Did I not say that this was only the beginning?
I’m begging you, if you want to get stupid, do it with your own money. Leave mine out of it.
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This is not a boomer issue
The Boomers were the ones in charge when this happened. Accept. Responsibility.
Your generation sucks. Really. Your generation is worried to death about whether kids have tattoos and piercings. Talk about focusing on shit that doesn’t matter. Your generation, in suits, has ruined my country.
My generation might suck, too. Time will tell. As of right now, your generation has steered the ship right into an ice berg.
I’ve tried to explain this to you a few times, Mike, but you seem to have a serious block on this subject. While Bush may be a boomer, there is nothing about his policies that are representative of the boomer generation. If anything, Clinton was closer, though still nowhere near the poster boy. I realize that you want desperately to attribute the problems in the country to a generation, but try Republicans, convservatives, right wing, evangelicals, etc. That’s just the reality of it.