Occupy Everything

[CanonRay]

By James Howard Kunstler
on October 10, 2011 9:17 AM



"Recession Officially Over," The New York Times' lead headline declared around 7 o'clock this morning. (Watch: they'll change it.) That was Part A. Part B said, "US Incomes Kept Falling." Welcome to What-The-Fuck Nation. I suppose if you include the cost of things like the number of auto accident victims transported by EMT squads as part of your Gross Domestic Product such contradictions to reality are possible. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, where are you when we really need you?

I dropped in on the Occupy Wall Street crowd down in Zuccotti Park last Thursday. It was like 1968 all over again, except there was no weed wafting on the breeze (another WTF?). The Boomer-owned-and-operated media was complaining about them all week. They were "coddled trust-funders" (an odd accusation made by people whose college enrollment status got them a draft deferment, back when college cost $500 a year). Then there was the persistent nagging over the "lack of an agenda," as if the US Department of Energy, or the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was doing a whole lot better.

http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/10/occupy-everything.html

[Amonester]

1. The USDE, SCBHUA, and most all of them are busy...

returning financiers' "inve$tment$" into political campaigns ten fold (minimum). (That's their agenda.)

Apart from that, nails it.

k&r.

[tinkerbell41]

2. Seen that headline last night.

"REcession officially over. Don't know where I seen it but when I looked at my referral hall's website MAGICALLY 1800 people had gone back to work. POW! Just like that. They ARE terrified!!!

[lonestarnot]

3. They should be.