The New York Times: A Confederacy Of Conflicted Buffoons

  •  November 29, 2008

I couldn’t help but admire the cognitive dissonance on display in the New York Times today.
First there was this editorial castigating Americans (not necessarily incorrectly) for spending too much money.
Then there was this article, which turned a mother’s decision to forgo designer jeans for the sake of giving her child more toys for Christmas into some kind of great social injustice.
Americans do spend too much, and in general Americans have far too much unsecured debt. As the credit markets adjust and reset there are going to be some painful lessons learned by Americans who have spent too zealously in recent years. That being said, it’s hard to see the injustice in a woman having to sacrifice her designer fashion budget.
I mean, c’mon.

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  • http://Array NoJelly

    Mickey, Now that I re-read my comment, I guess I should have been more specific. I doubt His Highness could keep us out of a major war (I can’t even argue that it isn’t his intent to get us into one), but what I meant by my earlier comment was that the industrial infrastructure that existed for the original FDR to make himself look good no longer exists here. Should we enter a major conflict, all of our arms will be lend-leased to us or purchased from countries where our industries ran to after the ingenious tax hikes of the ’90s…The US economy will not benefit…Unless they sweet talk Haliburton into coming home…

  • NoJelly

    Rob sed;
    ” As the credit markets adjust and reset …”

    This is going on the assumption that the credit markets will be allowed to adjust and reset. Remember that the original incarnation of FDR did no favors for the financial health of business in this country, only padded the already fat pockets of his rich pals…FDR II’s problem is that he won’t have a WWII scenario to pull his nuts out of the fire. This country has had that brand of initiative programmed out over the last 50+ years…

    If this economy goes, it will go long, deep and continuously…

  • Mickey

    NoJelly, Don’t assume that Obama won’t get dragged into a war he can’t BS his way out of. That segment of the global sect that hates America also recognizes Obama for a naive push over. We no longer have the advantage of a good poker face on a willing executioner. Lawyers, rainbows and unicorns don’t scare terrorists.

  • http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php Steven Earl Salmony

    Perhaps it is time for the same ol’ business-as-usual, pin-stripe-suited leaders, the ones who adamantly espouse and religiously exemplify an apostate’s creed of greed, to be replaced by new leadership.

    Too many leaders of this patently unsustainable culture of avarice evidently define the culture’s efficacy by the endless accumulation of material possessions; by the unbounded acquisition of more money, money, money, money; by recklessly overconsuming and relentlessly hoarding limited resources. They demonstrably declare to all the world that greed is good.

    Are we not members of a culture that worships consumerism? Are the products of greed nothing more or less than the objects of our idolatry?

    Are the pin-striped suits, fleet of cars, chauffeur, private jets, McMansions, distant hideaways, secret handshakes and exclusive clubs…… all “signatures” of success in a culture promoted by the ‘goodness’ of greed?

    Consider for a moment what perversity greed has wrought.

    Steven Earl Salmony
    AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
    established 2001
    http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

  • di butler

    The Times is bleeding money. Poor, poor Pinch and family.

  • http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

    All the news that’s fit to wrap fish with.

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