Don't Believe Anybody

The news is pissing me off again. I'm back to just skimming headlines and I'm boycotting the cable bloviators.

All this talk talk talk, rant rant rant about Obama's economic stimulus plan and the automakers rescue and the mortgage rescue plan is irrelevant.

Why?

BECAUSE NOBODY REALLY KNOWS HOW TO GET US OUT OF THIS MESS. They're all just guessing.

Put five economists in a room and you'll get six different opinions. This shitstorm we find ourselves in is unlike anything we've experienced before, so anybody speaking with certainty is an out-and-out liar.

BECAUSE NOBODY REALLY KNOWS...

A quote from FDR during the height of the Depression seems appropriate. We need to do something, he said, and if that doesn't work, we need to do something else.

BUT NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT TO DO.

Thank God there's finally someone in the White House who is obviously a whole lot smarter than I am. Who's pragmatic and not an idealogue. And who is trying to create a culture of bipartisanship and collaboration. (Good luck with THAT one...)

All us little folks can do is keep our fingers crossed while whistling in the dark.