by threadbear » Wed 30 May 2007, 16:58:53
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'G')ideon,
I have lost friends and reputation by trying to preach the message
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If only it were just a matter of out surviving dinosaurs. It's hard when you lose family, though.
I have warned one of my sibs (not hounded) about the economy, energy supply problems, for a couple of years. She and her husband still took on $200,000 more mortgage debt a few months ago.
She thinks I'm a "downer". I also talk too much about the neo-cons "and stuff", so that relationship is never going to be what it was and may be pretty much over.
Part of the reason people are over spending is because they work for corporations where management and workers alike are encouraged to "think positive" and not listen to people who try to "interfere with their dreams." It's a social disease, not just related purely to the economy...it extends to issues that influence world view and how honestly and openly we can relate to one another, without worrying about being slotted into one of two possible categories--Negative thinker, or positive thinker. Sick really.