The New York Times: A Confederacy Of Conflicted Buffoons
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.
