We need to focus on the positive about our economy. Because the fear factor is as big an enemy to recovery as any disagreement about the path.
Not Polyanna, just a counteract to the gloom and doom that’s eating up our future.
Whatcha think?
UPDATE: Quick Google search found this: http://www.goodnewseconomist.com/ – exactly what I’m talking about. Hope to feed him more content of a positive vein – you do the same, please.
A couple quick pointers – I wrote a vent piece at Newsvine about the Fickle Finger of Blame now pointed at us Americans for spending money we didn’t have, which until a few short weeks ago was saluted as The American Way. Please read it, and join in the discussion!
And in researching my next on-air Leave it to Barney piece, I found a fascinating piece of Internet history – a document last updated in the “ancient” year 1995 about basic Netiquette. Many of the rules still apply. Interesting!
Just had an interesting, keypad-based phone survey from Rasmussen Reports.
All about spending this month, last month, next month, is my personal finance situation getting better/worse. (With the missus out of work for almost two YEARS now, gulp, can’t get much worse.)
I used to think we could “talk up” the economy to counter the talking down by the Big Bad Media (heh);-) But between the gas-price crisis and the housing crunch, I guess we really do need the “moral equivalency of war,” as someone put it years ago. But unlike the Iraq/Afghan War, we all have to share in the consequences and coming up with solutions.
Can the ridiculously partisan finger-pointers on Capitol Hill get their act together? Can government really solve any of this?
Want a place to talk about this? Try my embryonic, nobody-talking-yet High Desert Forum, at http://highdesertforum.yuku.com. It’s a way, I hope, to talk beyond the local news articles of the day. Please join me!
Leave it to Barney 