Comments on: Cheap Drugs: The Bright Side Of Recession

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:34:28 +0000

A recession only means that the economic troubles are in their last throes. Bring it on!

This recession could last six days, maybe six weeks… I doubt six months.

By: Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer

Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:33:15 +0000

I’m just waiting for a special recession edition of The Secret that reveals how to keep your property values high, your job secure, and your prices low with the power of happy brain waves. You know, like all the fat cats do.

Ha ha ha … [sigh]

By: thedarkbackward

thedarkbackward — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:23:57 +0000

I’ll be darned if I’m not getting flashbacks to THE SHOCK DOCTRINE.

A little chaos, a stern economic shakeout and VIOLA! Time to squeeze in those radical “free” market reforms!

By: jbofmo

jbofmo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:02:38 +0000

Just last year a wingnut friend just couldn’t debate it any longer and says “Shut the hell up about Iraq. At least we’re still making money!” Wonder what he’ll say now?

By: justbrent

justbrent — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:13:17 +0000

I expect that, any day now, we will get the wingnut grand unification theory. It will go like this:

The recession is good because it “right-sizes” the economy and American businesses, keeping us competitive in the world market. Fortunately for you, we’ve been fighting initiatives on global warming, so the weather should be nice and toasty for all you recently homeless folks. In addition, with the Fed slashing interest rates during this time of real estate deflation, there will be lots of opportunities for the rich to grab up super-cheap foreclosures which they can rent or sell back to you in a few years at an obscene profit. Then, having sucked up an even bigger portion of the nation’s wealth, they will finally be able to lead us to the utopian ideal that has eluded America for so long. It’s a little thing that we like to call Neo-Feudalism.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:18:49 +0000

I’m just waiting for a special recession edition of The Secret that reveals how to keep your property values high, your job secure, and your prices low with the power of happy brain waves. You know, like all the fat cats do.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:10:18 +0000

Some well-insulated power-of-positive-thinking asswipe was talking up recession as being good for our health because we wouldn’t be able to overeat any more and we’d probably be walking more. We’d also have better mental health because we wouldn’t be overworking so much. We’d have so much more high quality personal time to better ourselves durring a recession.

Jesus Christ, some people have no sense, no memory, and no compassion.

By: (Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth)

(Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:32:08 +0000

Pollyanna–nonsense. When I just paid $50 to fill up my gas tank the other day I felt very patriotic. I even sang the National Anthem, hand over my heart and all, unlike that America hating Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Paying $1,400 out of pocket for MRIs finally made me explode with patriotic fervor and I ended up making a “Bush Girl” video as a response to the Obama Girl. Then I made a Rove Girl, then my piece de resistance, Cheney Girl. I write the White House every day hoping to be the next intern to visit the Oval Office. I mean, if those rotten evolutionary biologists claim that we are so related to chimps, then they should have no problem with me having “relations” with the Chimp in Chief, should they? I even have bought some of the finest cigars.

Anything to escape this erratic weather, really. I mean, all of this global warming that isn’t really happening has me quite confused about what to wear. Snow Friday night and 70 degrees a few days later? I’m just happy that God is continuing his creation science. Go God! Woohoo! Big waves from the Land of the Free, big guy!!

(Arky, as usual, I LOVE the new name;)

By: histrogeek

histrogeek — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:31:08 +0000

“If anything, recessions make for clean starts.”
The same thing can be said of revolutions (except of course that the latter has a chance of ridding us of privileged morons like Kudlow).

By: (Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth)

(Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:20:54 +0000

Hey, I can comment again. Darned Firefox….

I love this recession, I just wanted everyone to know this. The mere idea that I cannot sell my home keeps me satisfied and fulfilled. Especially having spent a little over $3,000 out of pocket over what my health insurance will cover to get my diagnosis, this has me just over the moon (which I expect to trickle down to within reach at any moment). I can’t wait to get more drugs for my condition and cheaper, too!

TownHall really covers my needs, and their new health insurance plan is what I can’t wait to sign up for. Ahh, the Mos Isley of the web, I’ve even heard rumors that they will soon add music from the tavern in Star Wars to their main page. Remember, the Empire is soooo good….can’t wait until they buy my house and pay for my next round of MRIs.

By: Doodle Bean

Doodle Bean — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:20:37 +0000

Pedestrian,

I’ll have to read that. Although it just might splode my brain. That’s what hearing all those stupid quotes from the 1920′s and 30′s have been doing.

Ka-BOOM!

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:43:42 +0000

I just finished Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. It was nostalgialicious. It was written in 1931, so the author’s naivity about just how much things were changing and how bad they would get adds an extra layer of sadly cuteness. I think that a similar book could be written about the rip-roaring 90s and all the silly little things that used to seem so big and important back when peace and prosperity reigned. Might be bad luck though.

By: Anna Granfors

Anna Granfors — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:38:09 +0000

“make poverty history! cheaper drugs, NOW! make poverty history! cheaper drugs, NOW!”

-Frank Gallagher, Shameless (UK Channel 4)

By: Doodle Bean

Doodle Bean — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:21:50 +0000

I’ve been listening to a complete .mp3 History of the United States to while away the long hours at work and recently got up to the 1920′s and the Great Depression.

The similarities to today are striking. The ‘experts’, politicians and pundits of that time were saying the exact same stuff about booming real estate values and the surging stock market — and then the crashing down of both — right down to Herbert Hoover declaring that the government need not do anything about the crashes since a recession cleared out the system.

Hoover believed that ‘bad’ companies would fail; ‘good’ companies would survive and the American people would work harder and cheaper, thus increasing their ‘moral fiber’. That’s why we remember him to one of the greatest Presidents of all time!

Well, and for his violent repression of the Bonus Marchers…

By: mingo

mingo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05:10 +0000

These “recession is our friend!!!” statements also have a strong parallel to the meme morph of “global warming is junk science!!!” to “global warming is good, it will feed the hungry!!!”, once it became apparent that climate change was, well, not junk science. I feel that when the right-wing starts cooing their concern about the poor and hungry, you need to guard your butt, because it’s about to be screwed.

I have always felt the neocon economic policies had fixing the “servant problem” at their black little heart.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:57:46 +0000

If anything, recessions make for clean starts.

Of course, so does killing your spouse or burning your house down. Thanks, Larry, I’m sure we all feel better now.

Hey… it worked for me!

By: RandomObserver

RandomObserver — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:53:05 +0000

I believe it was also Andrew Mellon who said something to the effect that recessions force people to work harder, and thus be more honest and of greater moral fiber.

By: RandomObserver

RandomObserver — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:50:44 +0000

This kind of positive talk about recessions is always some vague claptrap about tightening the belt and trimming excess and bringing balance to the force. It’s all so plainly crazy so they obscure it with terrible metaphors.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:01:55 +0000

I hope his roof caves in, he gets caught in a hurricane while Bush is still in power, and he’s mugged on the next street corner. I also hope he’s in one of those FAA regulated planes due to crash at any moment. There’s nothing like a thousand near misses and plane crashes to make you realize how great self-regulation really is.

These assholes will defend and support every heinous consequence of the corrupt government they support. AAASSSSHOOOLES.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:23:31 +0000

OneMan, don’t forget all the neocons who root for another massive terrorist attacks (the more Americans dead and dying, the better for them) so that we “wake up” to the threat and stop questioning their wars. Egypt, Palestine, and the rest of those raghead nations won’t invade themselves. And we’ve got all those nukes just laying around. Sure would be a shame to have them go to waste….