An esoteric essay on current economic perceptions and the fallacies therein. Or something like that.

Negativity rules these days, in the media, at the lunch counters, the tennis court juice bars, the beauty shops, opium dens, and on the bar stools occupied by guys who teasingly show off their butt crack cleavage to prove that they are real working guys, even if they have not worked for a while.

Practically everybody acts negative.  Even my dog, Hap, who just shakes his head when I read him my positive, inspirational blogs. After giving me a sad look that implies I just don’t get it, he punctuates his nonverbal negativity with a fart.

I get it.  Life stinks and you have to smell it.  Well, Hap, I know you are smarter than me because I’m the one who carries your pooper-scooper, but I don’t believe it.

Everybody says things aren’t getting better in America. They say President Obama has failed.

I think that is bunk.

They say that any imbecile would do a better job than the bozos currently in Congress, or the Governor’s mansion.  And it looks like they intend to test that premise come November 2 by voting for the least experienced candidate.  They seem to want stupid.  If Lindsay Lohan, who is arguably even more intellectually challenged than Sarah Palin… if Lindsay was running for the Senate, I think the Tea Partying negatorians would vote for her.

I think that most of what these negative people say is not what they think, but what has been thunked at them by the entire GOP, the RightWingNut propaganda channel, puppet masters like Beck and Limbaugh and fellow travelers in the news media who are singing a song of doom and gloom, and fear.

(You can take a break here, if you want, to listen to Colbert’s Theme song “Keep Fear Alive” which really has very little to do with this blog, but I like it, and if you’ve read this far, you will, too.)

Boy, I needed that musical break, but now it is back to me pontificating.  To use an economic term I learned from Milton Friedman, the negatorians are fulloshit.

Things are getting better.  Oh, you don’t believe me, do you?

Please let me explain. All economists, pundits, and even empty talking-heads agree that conditions at the end of the Bush years were cataclysmic. We were looking at a world-wide depression.

Then our county’s least stupid economists decided to save the world by saving the financial infrastructure first.  So to save you and me they threw money at them.  And that questionable decision at the very least gave America and world a solid economic platform to rebuild on.

If you don’t think having a solid economic platform is good, you either are running for office, or have the IQ of one of Lindsay Lohan’s boobs  – the one that’s always nipple-slipping, not the smart one.

What makes that good beginning bad was/is that the greedyfcks running the world’s banks and businesses decided what was good for them was good for America.  Those with this philosophy can be identified by their support of extending Bush’s tax cut to the millionaires, billionaires, and trillionaires.

It is my contention that the corporate executives reamed us.  Not Obama.  Not the Congress, at least not the side of the aisle that wanted to do something to make things better. It was rich bankers that would not lend.  And rich corporate execs that would not invest in anything but executive compensation packages.

Believe me when I tell you we’ve gone through the worst of the worst — unless of course, the GOP takes both houses of Congress.

If you want to punish someone for the mess we are in, I suggest you don’t punish the Democrats who have at least tried to save us.  Punish the Republicans, the tea-partiers, the corporate executives, and your banker.

I wish I could tell you to take your money out of the banks and the stock market.  But I can’t and you can’t.  All we can do is to stop the Repuppetlicans of the rich from getting elected.

If you believer me, but still can’t vote for the Democrat Party or the Green Party, write in Lindsay Lohan.  After all, we get the government we deserve.