'Swift' economic recovery post-election?
Inman Community brief
By Inman News, Friday, September 26, 2008.Editor's note: The following is a reader comment on the Sept. 19 Inman News column, "Mark this day: The worst is over."
"One candidate took a lot of grief from his opponents this week and these developments certainly didn't help. You seem to be saying (in a different way) what he has said -- that our economy is fundamentally sound. I happen to agree, as do many others. The phenomenon of "consumer confidence" is the only thing keeping our economy from rebounding and lurching forward. I happen to believe that as soon as the presidential election is over (regardless of who wins), our economic recovery will be swift and unprecedented. We need to consider our own optimism for just a moment. It holds the key to our future and the ability to lift us from even our deepest funk."
--Shannon Ziccardi
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Submitted by Gail Bucker on September 26, 2008 - 1:13pm.
Consumer confidence is indeed "everything." After 9/11 President Bush asked all of us to go out and buy cars and t.v.'s to defeat terrorism and our economy zoomed.
I ran upon this piece of history that some might find informative. If we don't know history we are doomed to repeat it...read on:
General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi:
'What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us!
We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was definitely
helping us. They were causing more disruption in
America than we could in the battlefields. We
were ready to surrender. You had won!'
General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam -- it was lost at home.. The exact same slippery slope, sponsored by the US media, is currently well underway. It exposes the enormous power of a biased media to cut out the heart and will of the American public.
Gail Bucker
Associate Broker
Sandbridge Realty
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456
www.thebeachpros.com
757-469-8746