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Originally Posted by raymr
Recession, depression. Whatever you call it, its a purging and cleansing process that shakes out the junk in the system. Its like vomit and diarrhea, not pleasant but sometimes necessary.
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I'm not sure that covers it. I mean perhaps in the long run but that doesn't mean some serious unpleasantness isn't ahead of us.
I've had a good bit of anxiety in the back of my mind for years at our steady loss of manufacturing and the growing trade deficit. Such stuff will not continue indefinitely w/o some serious upheaval.
And we're just invested billions of dollars of borrowed money on a really bad investment -- "just" as in for the last 6 or 7 years.
OBL and crew have to be rejoicing at our predicament as they hoped to prove the historical adage: 'Afghanistan -- where empires go to die' at our expense, with Iraq being part of the death blow. BHO is talking about redoubling our effort in Afghanistan (the good war).
2002, 2003 was the time for that, not now.