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Economic Pollyanaas: How Can They Be So Wrong?

That's the same press that gullibly led us into a pointless war in the Middle East. Keep in mind that the retired generals who tell us on TV what's going on were specially selected by the administration and receive special briefings because they follow the administration line, and most of them have financial conflicts of interest because they also are paid by defense contractors.

So of course this press tells us Allan Greenspan is a genius whose economic policies brought everybody prosperity. Of course a sustained bull market is just around the corner. Of course a few oil rigs at the North Pole will enable everybody to drive their travel homes across the country for pocket change.

Cui bono? Well, if news readers and viewers understood that the economy is in the tank, their grandchildren will have no oil and will still be paying back what this administration borrowed from China to simultaneously launch pointless warfare and huge tax cuts, and hundreds of thousands of people are dead and many more maimed so that a cabal of Vietnam era draft dodgers could feel many, if they got depressed by all that really bad news, they wouldn't be inclined to buy, buy, buy the advertisers' products, would they?