https://barelyablog.com/hurry-voodoo-child-talk-up-the-economy/ by ilana mercer Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:05:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/hurry-voodoo-child-talk-up-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-5159 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:19:39 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=5266#comment-5159 It seems to me that we have a “crisis of confidence” because some folk are starting to awaken from their spending orgy-induced somnambulence and discovering that no, you really can’t spend forever. It’s a pity someone can’t get our government to listen.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/hurry-voodoo-child-talk-up-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-5156 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=5266#comment-5156 “WE will rebuild, WE will recover”: There is a famous expression that goes, “What do you mean ‘we,’ white man?” – well, one can now do a color inversion. {{the famous apocryphal quote is often attributed to the Tonto character in the Lone Ranger}}

]]> https://barelyablog.com/hurry-voodoo-child-talk-up-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-5154 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:28:23 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=5266#comment-5154 That line from Obama’s speech sounds like it came straight out of a movie.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/hurry-voodoo-child-talk-up-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-5148 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:50:25 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=5266#comment-5148 It’s hard to know what to say these days. Could confidence have turned Zim around? Mugabe believed there were “elements” (means white land owners) who were ruining confidence in his revolution. When I speak to friends about this mess it’s sooooooo incredibly wearying to hear someone say, “can’t you be positive?” It’s sickening to watch what’s going on because many of us believe that A will never be Negative A. In the word of Ayn Rand, “Evil requires the sanction of the victim”. We have plenty of sanction going on.

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