As I kind of mentioned at the end of my last post, if we want the economy to succeed we're going about it the wrong way. Completely. By spending less money people are just making this economic crisis worse. Look at this thing from the beginning: dip-shits loss their homes. Okay, we popped the housing bubble. But now everyone is wetting their pants, and not spending their money or taking out loans because looked what happened to those poor, poor (fiscally irresponsible) people. And we all know how the economy is "these days". We tried that stimulus thing this past summer. Everyone gets $600, they spend it, stores make money, people keep their jobs, more money is spent, etc. etc. Upward spiral. It looked like a good idea. But if you ask the scared American populous, most of the of them are going to say that they saved that money.
They saved it out of fear. To me it seems like America got totally wasted on our "awesomeness" and wealth and now we're waking up the next morning and have vowed to never drink again. That's one bitch of a hangover. But America - now all the bars are going out of business. Think about what sort of effect that will have? The bartender will loose his/her job and so will the truck driver, the janitor, the bottler, the distiller, the hops grower, and everyone involved in those processes. What you should've learned from this night of frivolities is not to stop drinking, but to drink more responsibly. Don't take out loans you can't pay back, and don't know what the interest rates are. (WTF, dude?) Have a little fun, spend a little dough. By purging ourselves of all our sins we're also fucking ourselves over.
A penny saved is not a penny earned, Mr. Franklin. A penny saved is a job lost.
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