Yeah, it’s bad we all know.  But guess what?

Shut up.

Seriously, it’s not helping.  I watched the news tonight and everything was blah blah BAD ECONOMY  blah blah the ECONOMY  blah bloo ha ha ECONOMY SUCKS.

I am so totally convinced that talking about it makes it worse.  All it does is 1.)make people depressed, 2.) scare people into NOT spending money, thus 3.) making the economy bite even more.

To me, the word news would imply NEW information.  This is old stuff, stop talking about it, move on to something NEW.

And here’s another thing, the news reported that the Metro Bus rates were going up because of… you guessed it… the economy.  I am actually not convinced that this is the case because gas prices are lower than they have been, and bus ridership is probably not down.  (Maybe it is, I don’t really know.)  But I’ve never understood the mentality of, "we’re not selling enough because money for everyone is tight, so rather than enticing new customers let’s gouge the loyal customers we have by making them pay more so we have more money."  Can anyone else see the flawed logic here?

Are you picking up what I am laying down?

I now propose an OFFICIAL BAN ON THIS BLOG.  No talking about the economy.  Unless you want to talk about how magical and happy it is.

P.S.  I have a new favorite quote, it’s from the Horton Hears a Who movie: "In my world everyone is a pony who eats rainbows and poop butterflies."  You are allowed to say those kind of lovely things about the economy in this place.  :)