Comments on: Dude, I Found Your Recession http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2451 Conservative commentary served up in bite-sized bits Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Doug Payton http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2451&cpage=1#comment-6452 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:55:57 +0000 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2451#comment-6452 I’d expand on that. When European economies are doing well, it gets noticed. When there are riots due to bad economic conditions, the riots may be covered, but the underlying issues don’t get mentioned. Presently, there are full-blown recessions going on, and you’d be hard-pressed to find much MSM coverage, if any.

]]> By: Matt Duncan http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2451&cpage=1#comment-6450 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:31:21 +0000 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2451#comment-6450 I take news like this in the same tradition as what some saw as the revelation that Europe has been paying an equivalent $6-8 per gallon of gasoline for more than the past decade. Without having had our television screens bombarded with images of their fuel stations alongside our own for all those years, we were shocked to see our prices so suddenly approaching…half that cost (did we perhaps think that the mini-coops and scooters so oft associated with Europe in the movies were a simply a result of “weird” foreign tastes?).

You can blind a horse, yes, but as the saying goes, you can also lead a horse to water but not make him drink. In some cases it’s blinding. In others, it’s “selective vision.” Thank goodness we’re not horses, right?

But, looking at the present, with a looming worldwide recession from which we’ll not likely be exempt, another fatal flaw of human nature rears its head: the need for a scapegoat. If not Bush, who do you think will be next to blame, and why?

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