Enough With The Economy Already
Posted on: March 10, 2009 by Matt
I think I have had enough with the news about the economy. The current economic crisis is all that the news media seems to cover these days with a little touch on other items. I understand that our economy is important news but I also believe that the daily reports of all the horrible economic events incites fear and encourages the current economic state.
I know there are probably a lot of people out there with a similar point of view but I think I need a short rant! All we hear lately is scary news about the current economy, consumer confidence is at an all time low and that banks are failing. Then the people we have elected to work these problems out spend time bickering or working their own agenda to hold up potential progress!!! Is it just me or is something fundamentally wrong here? I could understand not wanting to endorse a program that you believe would not benefit the citizens of your district or that you strongly believe would be detrimental to the nation as a whole but obstruction for the sake of bringing down the other party’s approval numbers? That is just irresponsible.
So now we are not only hearing about how bad the economy is but also about how our elected officials think their own plans to move forward are more important than the current needs of the country. I really am starting to think that if America as a whole was to just turn off their television sets for a month we would probably start to see a turn around. The economic fear would start to dissipate for most consumers after a couple weeks and people would start to live their lives again. Of course this is another “if a tree fell in the forest and nobody was there to hear it…” theories but you never know – it might work (if we could keep people from being bombarded by media that is).
Ok – there’s my rant for the week. What do you think? Are you as tired of all the economic and political news as I am?
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That’s what prompted my attempt to do a media fast – but a media fast is hard to do. I’ve failed. Now I figure that as long as I spend *less* time on the news sites, that’s good. And I’ve succeeded with that, anyway. The news doesn’t really change much from day to day about the economy.