Reply #72: It's not a matter of "liking" Robert Reich or not,

[woo me with science]

just as it's not a matter of "liking" Obama or not. You know as well as I do that the "facts and numbers" you reference have been debated ad nauseum on this board over the past two days, and that many have provided extensive context, as well as other "facts and numbers," that show what spin this cheering really is. Of course you will ignore all that, but that is to be expected. This board has become an embarrassment in terms of downplaying the serious economic state we are in, in order to defend egregious Republican/corporate policies that will cause a world of further harm.

As I have stated recently in another thread, this is a horrible tactic even politically. Throwing out isolated numbers that obscure the larger picture, while ignoring the context of those numbers and other numbers that belie them, does not fool people into cheering for policies that are destructive. It does not fool them into believing that the criminal bank-excusing, budget slashing, austerity-promoting, and outsourcing-causing status quo is the right track to be on. On the contrary, it insults and enrages people who are living this debacle, and it demonstrates for them a horrifying inability to clearly see and acknowledge the real problems that are drowning this economy.

And that level of denial does not inspire confidence in the ability to SOLVE the problems.