What everyone forgets is that '08 too was a 'wave'. The 'waves' seem to be getting bigger. '12 ought to be a doozy.
When the waves get bigger, it usually means there is a storm out at sea. People pray that it will pass them by. Still, fishermen will secure their boats. The local Home Depot will run out of plywood and the shelves at the grocery stores will empty.
It’s no different from political waves. Some are already certain that the storm will make landfall. They are now in the process of preparing for it. Others will continue to ignore the warnings. Still others will take their surfboards down to the beach for a thrill ride.
Most times the warnings are indirect - not at all like color depictions of diseased lungs on cigarette packs - it takes multiple leaps to arrive at a conclusion. Like Bernanke running the printing presses so hot, we can well expect the paper to catch fire. Like our own government’s severely restricted use of the word ‘enemy’ - barring all reference to our real enemies - and we coming to realize (belatedly, perhaps) that the enemy is us.
It’s become a minefield to navigate these waters. Plenty of opportunity for re-direction (diversion) to lead us astray. The way to do it, I suppose, is to step back - to take the long view of the battlefield. We’ve got the technology, the satellites. But even that’s uncertain in these troubled times. How is it that when we see the rockets’ red glare on both coasts, our government appears to have no clue as to what just happened?
They know alright. They just won’t tell us. It might embarrass the president. Go back to sleep. Nothing is happening.
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