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I'm so very curious about the "news" these days.
How is it that, when you are friends with someone or know someone and they fail to accept reality and always talk crap or or completely unrealistic about things, you basically ignore or learn to write them off, for the most part? Usually, "oh, that guys a dooosh," or "that dude is crazy, he has no idea what he's talking about."
YET ... when public figures or politicians do the same thing, supported by the spin and/or presentation in the media, people seem to soak it up and just fall in line like little minions?
For example, Europe is BROKE. They have spent their future on completely non-producing assets. Building infrastructure and long term projects are minimal and fall behind improving government offices and spending on government pensions and public sector benefits. The same holds true for the US, though we are not as close to the cliff as the one they fell off.
SO ... IF each or any of us were in the same spot, as in, we were earning $50,000 per year and spending $75,000 per year ... how would we behave? Would we just borrow continuously if we could? If there were no credit requirements or any requirement or test that we be able to pay the money back ... as there is for countries taht print their own currecny ... would each of us keep borrowing forever?
And yet ... this is what governments do ... and the talking heads and the headlines all have positive spin with no basis in reality. Like the person above, they are out of their mind and clearly not part of the reality we each know. How do they rationalize it? Change the way they evaluate something. For example:
Unemployment is 16.9% in the USA. It's listed at 7.8% for political reasons for sure, but if you take available to work and those not working ... the latter makes up 16.9% of the total. But it is spun through all kinds of 'adjustments' which are nonsense. ONLY government can get away with an ongoing "Ministry of Truth."
We fail to apply reality to the "powers that be" via some suspension of disbelief continuously fostered by what we are told and what is espoused from "those who know."
Perhaps Forrest Gump is the most happy of all and ignorance can indeed be bliss :)
