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Posted by Rooster on Monday, 2008 Jul 14
The swan and I took a trip into the great metropolis of Hotlanta this weekend.
While we were waiting in line to buy 4 dollar gas I noticed that every pump had a car parked at it. In fact, Friday when I was filling up my work truck, I had to wait for someone to get out of the way to get gas.
Once we got started heading down the Interstate, trafic flowed pretty well, but it was full of cars. We spent the night wth the in-laws and, of course, turned on a baseball game. The stands were full.
On our way home we realised we had left some items we sould need durring the week, so we pealed off at the Mall of Georgia to hit the target store. We had to travel about a mile from the Interstate; it took us 20 minutes. The streets around the mall were packed with traffic. The mall parking lot was full to the brim.
The trip home on the Interstate was stop and go because of all the traffic on the road.
So, just where is this reccession? Looks to me like people are traveling and shopping and attending expensive baseball games. I’d think if times were as bleak as they are protrayed in the news that there’d be les of all that going on.
Gerald Cook said
Rooster, Probally the best thing for many of them , they do not listen to the liberal news media or read the AJC.
Rooster said
The thing is Gerald, they probably do watch/read that crud, but don’t equate it to their own life. I mentioned some of this to Scott Lewis today and he just went on and on about how bad everything was. He ran down Phil Grahm for calling people whiners. waa waa waa.
I told him about all that I wrote above, that the housing foreclosures were less than a percent of the housing mortgages – pain is a part of the capitalist process – despite the hard times in our own industry he’s still doing pretty good. Didn’t make a dent. The news says we’re in a recession and everything is bad. So, we’re in a recession and everything is bad.
Individual thought is becoming a rare commodity these days.
The Mighty Buzzard said
Individual thought’s always been rare in a national population regarding running the nation. That’s why we keep hiring elephants and jackasses to do the governing for us.
Then again, with 49.9999% of our citizens being of below average intelligence, that’s probably a good thing.