It drives me crazy how the media is just focusing on the negative aspects of this double dip recession and not the many great things about it. Here are five of my favorite:
1. Double Dip Recessions look better on a graph. And if there’s one thing I hate, it’s an ugly graph. Here’s a detailed graph that pretty much shows the recession. It’s gorgeous. It looks just like Madonna’s bust in her Vogue video.
Madonna's boobies from The Vogue video or a graph of a double dip rececession.
2. There are two things that are really big turn-offs for me: French toddlers that smoke unfiltered cigarettes and lazy, old people. Have you ever noticed that when most people turn 90, they want just everything spoon fed to them. Just because they no longer have any teeth. Well, this recession has gotten more senior citizens off the street and back on the assembly line.
3. Putting the poor back in their place. I remember a couple of years ago Bill Gates whining to me that even the poor now have the fun gadgets that were reserved only for the well-to-do just a few years before. He had just had dinner over at Oprah’s house and was pissed to see that she had a big flat screen, plasma TV just like he did. “What fun is it to be filthy rich if the poor have the same toys that we do?” Well, after this recession, the poor may still have their gadgets but they no longer have all those “accoutrements” that go with it like a house, food, or health care.
4. Bringing back the extended family. When grandpa loses his job, he often has to move back in with his grandson or great granddaughter. It’s very Chico and the Man. I love it.
5. People are eating Pop-Tarts again. Where else can you have a pastry filled breakfast for $0.25 or less? Croissants can cost twenty times that and don’t come in cherry vanilla or oreo cookies and cream.
