… a bunch of stuff happened and a bunch of people were born but, frankly, none of it or them interest NewMexiKen much.
Other than maybe, the fact that Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz is 38 today.
Oh, and Jenna Fischer is 35.
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Most importantly: On this day, Chicago Cubs baseball returns to my television.
(They lost, 2-0.)
The Chinese word for “crisis” contains the characters for danger+opportunity. Our economic collapse should show anyone that our culture was an unaccountable hollow shell of unsustainability. The real part of our economy, consumer spending and debt, has turned on us; one part died and the other rules. The houses of cards can’t fix themselves, and that only leaves our government ; ourselves in representation and credit.
Moody Financial Services analyzed stimuli monies and derived that tax cuts of $1.00 delivered $1.02 back into the economy. Weak, but hey, it’s stimulation, GDP growth. Not a lie, but not the truth. Truthiness. Direct government spending into the economy delivers $1.59 for every $1.00 spent. Food Stamps return $1.73 to the economy for every government $1.00. Tax cuts are obviously the weakest way to stimulate a flaccid economy.
Since we’re funding the recovery, we should steer it in a new direction. If the world is as flat as Tom Friedman explains, then we will face a huge downward compromise. Tariffs are illegal. Think of this : Denmark doesn’t make cars, so they can and do have a 300% tariff on imported cars. That could be our future without uniting and revising our course.