Enough to make you throw something at the TV.

I watched This Week with George Stephanopoulos and during the round table the question of recession came up. When asked why almost half of Americans thought we were already in a recession George Will said, “Frankly Americans today have an incredibly low threshold of pain . . .”

Hmmm; 14 million people losing their homes to foreclosure, family income down 6% since 2000, heating oil up 30%, gasoline twice what it was when Bush took office (and I really mean that, TOOK office), a million new uninsured people every year since Bush took office and more people living below the poverty level than ever before.

But we’ve got a low pain threshold.

Well, isn’t that special . . .

whether in print or on TV-----one of the worst of all the pompous blowhards paid big bucks spew out intellectual sounding inanities...

because you're not alone in your annoyance. Every time one of them merrily chirps about this wonderful GOP economy, a thousand more people realize they're being lied to by a bunch of overpaid hacks.

Everybody knows prices are skyrocketing, wages are going noplace, and their net worth is tied up in houses that are depreciating in price. They know if they get sick, the insurance they're paying top price for will try to cheat them out of appropriate care. They know their ability to maintain their lifestyle is tied to the amount of debt they can leverage. They know their retirements are shot to hell by corporate greed and that the GOP wants to rob them of Social Security, too.

The whole picture is not creating a population that is prepared to be mollified by a bunch of blow dried bobbleheads and right wing billionaires telling them their lives are peachy and if they're unhappy, they're just being wimps.

Joe Public is in a mood to do something about it, and all these yappers are making him madder every day.

no home, no hope....
What a total POS

At least causing a bit of "no dignity:"

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little reminder how it feels to be flat on your face....


"shame, like other principles he touts, seems to be for other people."

Which George Will contributes too, so hopefully he read it...

Basically things are much more difficult today than 30 years ago. Some things were more expensive back then, but so many other things were cheaper. Basically the average family today with two working parents, has a harder time just on the same basic necessties (mortgage, electric, food, health care) than the average family with one working parent did a generation ago.

Low pain threshold my ass. You can make 50,000 a year in this country, (which is what, 3 times the poverty level?) and still have problems owning a house, buying food, providing health care, etc. Even if you can, unless you're living in one of the cheapest parts of the country, you're probably living paycheck to paycheck.

That's why people think it sucks more than it used to. Because it does.

sourcing is great.

Or an altered version. It reads almost exactly the same, but I don't have the newsweek copy anymore so I can't compare them.

The numbers on this one are the same. Household income up 74% primarily by adding a second worker, but total fixed expenses (house, school, health, car) have risen more than double that.

What word means the same thing as rigiddinosaurwholooksdownoneverybodyandisalmostneverright?

Santorum: noun; that brown frothy residue remaining after anal sex.

Man when did the right start hating America too?

As much as I hated the tragedy of Three Mile Island - I laughed my fanny off when it
went up just DAYS after George Will had pronounced Nuclear Energy to be the safest energy mode around.

For a long time.

Sadly, people like Will just Novak are seen as acceptable RWers even though they say just as contemptible things as Coulter and Limbaugh.