Several of the folks in the crowd that I hang with professionally are pretty liberal. Probably Democrats. Maybe socialist. OK...leftist wackos. So when we are together at various functions, you can count on lots of whining about how terrible George Bush is, how wrong our "occupation" of Iraq is ("was Saddam such a bad guy, really?"), and (my personal favorite) how the economy is just going down the tubes.
Went Christmas shopping with Mrs. Claus last Friday. The economy looks pretty good to me. And I'm not just talking about the "everythings-on-sale-at-Walmart" economy. I'm looking for parking places and room to breathe at upscale bookstores, specialty gift shops, nice department stores in fancy malls. I'm seeing ads that encourage me to give a Lexus as a gift (a campaign I'm sure you wouldn't run if it didn't work). A Lexus! Ho! Ho! Ho!
The only thing I can conclude is that my liberal friends need to fire their current brokers and get better ones. The stores and parking lots are full; the economy continues to grow at a rate that is the envy of the world; more people are working at higher paying jobs than ever before; and my portfolio is making money...and has been for the past two years.
Please. Can't we just complain about George Bush and war, and leave the economy alone?
1 comment:
apparently they haven't noticed that the unemployment rate is at an all time low. Even lower than their king and hero Bill Clinton had it...
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