Oh, poor S.T., college girl who finds that the nation is in a state of “economic despair.” This is a country with a 5.1% unemployment rate. In her own lifetime, in the boom times of Clinton, the unemployment rate was at 5.4%. But she’s been spoon fed “economic despair” and she believes it.
When I was your age I drove to California with my family and we carried plastic gas cans on the roof of the car, like Will Smith in I Am Legend. This because the gas crisis had emptied gas stations from coast to coast. Inflation was at 11%, unemployment was over 10%, our hostages were being humiliated in Iran and we had the inevitability of communism shoved down our throats by the only media outlets there were — ABC, CBS, and NBC.
I’ll give you economic despair, honey. Today we are so much better off it’s like looking at a woman cooking on an open fire outside a teepee, to look back at the 70′s.
Oh, and we had the global cooling crisis, too. To quote the Professor in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: “What are they teaching in schools these days?” Obviously not history and logic.
