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The "big fat shit" you refer to is also known as an economic cyclical correction; it is imperative that we have such corrections to keep inflation (over-expansion) under control. Capitalism, and thus the American economy, only thrives in a situation of expansion... thats just all there is to it; capitalism can simply not exist unless there is room to expand. If business just kept expanding rapidly, eventually it would expand to the point where it could not any more, and thus collapse. I'll take a 3 year correction (what we are in now) versus a total collapse of our economic institution (capitalism) any day.
Didn't win the cold war? Tell that to anyone that lived through it, anyone that lived in Florida during the Cuban Missle Crisis. It wasn't a conventional war we won, but a spending war, and yes, we won it; last I checked the Berlin Wall is down, the Red Scare is over, and we are allies with Russia; please correct any of that if you feel it is incorrect.
There are two trains of thought here. One sees history as a continuous, fluid motion and the other sees now as the only time that matters. We are not some unique generation that is going to be remembered as great; we are just another group of people weaving our lives around what is called history; life, existance, etc, are not snapshots; they are movies and we just have cameos.
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yeah, its that big
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