http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-stocks-tumble-biggest-drop/story.aspx?guid={01F6F134-2ECE-4D6B-8829-18D411D5FD94}&dist=msr_1

Or maybe just this excerpt:

“Everybody is looking for the silver bullet to fix the economy, but there isn’t one,” said Chris Johnson, chief executive of Johnson Investment Research in Cincinnati. “I think what they’re doing here is too little, too late.” Johnson has recently been using options contracts and exchange-traded funds to go short, or bet on a general decline in the stock market.

Okay, I have a REAL problem with this, Chris.  Get it right.  Silver bullets kill lycanthropes.  So, if the economy were rampaging through the village terrorizing innocents, as it did before the tech bubble burst, then this analogy might have been appropriate.  In its current lethargic state, however, shooting it with a silver bullet would, presumably, cause it to moan and die.  Aren’t we worried that it’s not well as it is?

If you’re searching for an analogy, here’s a better one:

Everyone’s hoping for a crack pipe to pass to the economy to really pep it up and make it feel great and like nothing is wrong, despite all the evidence to the contrary, but the main dealer left Washington in January.

Dear Mr. President,

Make three copies of this letter and send them to three other world leaders within twenty-four hours for eight years good luck!  If you don’t, terrorists will attack, natural disasters will strike when you’re not ready, and people will give you horrible approval ratings.  TRUST ME ON THIS!

W.

Bush said, “The American people understand the stakes in this struggle. They want their children to be safe from terror.”

It’s nice to see that Congress wants our children to be safe from Bush.

For my tax dollar, I’d much prefer paying for welfare, food, education and medical attention for people — regardless of citizenship status — than perpetrating an illegal war creating more and more hatred for the United States abroad.

So people saying that war is a great way to spend my money as opposed to blowing it all on food will never have my agreement. War is never the answer. War brings more and more fighting, hatred, and pain. Have you seen gas prices lately? If that were merely supply and demand, oil companies wouldn’t be posting obnoxious profits. We sacrifice American children to kill foreign children over money via oil.
What that article doesn’t comment on is how illegal aliens contribute to our economy. Like the fact that honest, hardworking Americans just don’t show up to do many of the jobs they do. They pay sales tax. They contribute to local economies by spending the paltry sums unscrupulous American business owners get away with paying them — precisely because they are undocumented. You don’t blame mold for growing on bread. You blame the person who left the bread out, right? So we’re going to punish the undocumented aliens for being brave enough to leave their homes, take crappy jobs in circumstances no American would tolerate by throwing them out? Who will mow our lawns? Clean our rooms? Pick our fruit? Americans? Think again.
In short, I’d rather feed them than kill them any day.

It saddens me that so many Americans are so jaded about death and killing that they look for misdirections such as the illegal immigration issue, abortion, gay marriage, and gun control rather than focusing on the fact that we’re facing another quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the Darfur genocide continues, but Darfur doesn’t sit on an oil field, so we decide we’re suddenly not world police.
Politicians keep misdirecting us, and like sheep, Americans follow the bouncing ball.
Like John Lennon said, “War is over. If you want it.”

Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Interview With The Vampire Terror Suspect

Here’s a guy who was investigated for “making terrorist threats” for writing a web comic. Benjamin Franklin said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

He was talking about us.

I hope, for your sake, that the answer was “No.” Now imagine that the GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDED that you not do it (remember, you’re a teenager!) … How does THAT factor in to your decision making process? Right. Not at all. The US Government has spent over $1 billion dollars on these ineffective programs just in the last 6 years. I could stay at home and telepathically tell teens not to have sex for only $500 million for the next ten years and have the same effect. And save our country money. Write your congressperson.