Harrison Bergeron

The Score So Far

It's Complicated

How's Business

It seems that the score so far is:
. Recovery 7 votes, 14%;
. Complicated 19 votes, 37%;
. Rut 25 votes, 49%.

Regarding the "recovery" voters:
. One ackowledges having taken a pay cut.
. One acknowledges living partly off savings.
. One is training less people to teach English in China. (Maybe the Chinese don't think English is all that important anymore)?

You three people may be optomisitic and that is good. But I think the first two are more accurately in the "rut" camp and the third in the "complicated" camp, which would make the score: Recovery 8%, Complicated 39%, Rut 53%.

Note also, that two of the "Complicated" voters say that they work in the financial services industry and are aware that large parts of the general population are not sharing in the recovery.

My understanding is that the characters down in Washington DC have borrowed thousands of thousands of millions of dollars, (how much is that anyway ?); from us, our children and our grandchildren to give to that industry. So of course that industry is doing well -- for now.

I would say that large parts of the population are not just being excluded from participation in the recovery, but have actually been ejected from the total social-economic structure. For example, if a few smart people in Silicon Valley invent some i-gadget -- well that's great for them. But if they build it in China or Singapore, then what are the rest of us dopes going to do to make a living?

NJ