Posted by
Andrews on Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:14:00 PM
There is one thing the media says that is true. The current economy is hurting the middle class. The only problem is they are blaming the wrong people, rather than "the Bush-Cheney Reign of Terror", the middle class is being hurt by the media itself.
I know some will scoff, but look at the numbers, better yet, look at my numbers. During every Republican administration, my 401k or 403b does fine, even though the media tells me the economy is tanking. But come the election year, the media ratchets into high gear, the same economy which was chugging along more or less efficiently suddenly becomes the "worst in eight thousand years", the easily scared take their money out of the market to hide under their mattress, and my investments tank.
Now, I will grant that thanks to the '94 revolution, my stocks did fine under Clinton (well, in spite of Clinton), but no better than in this "most awful economy since people started bartering shale for gourds". Clinton's triumph of getting 5% unemployment, of course, is much better than Bush's defeat of having unemployment rise to 5%, but other than that, I can't see much to distinguish Clinton's economic miracle from the "worst economy since fish crawled onto land and started swapping ferns".
So, please, media, can we just not mention the economy during election years? I know you want your guy to win (yes, you have a guy, admit it), but can't you just tell us how Cheney has a 666 birthmark behind his ear, Bush runs a secret trade in slave boys from Iraq, McCain was created in a secret Nazi genetics lab in Crawford, and be done with it? Must you ruin my retirement funds while you're at it?