I knew it all along. All you hear on the news is how this country is in a recession and things are so bad and blah, blah, frick’n blah. I am so sick of hearing it I could vomit, or as a colleague of mine would say womit. (He is Indian, the dot not the feather)

I have been saying that it was all a bunch of bull and part of the plan to drive the American economy into the ground so that we have to merge with Canada and Mexico. (Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, it is a long story that I will go into in a later post.)  Out of no where the puppets, some refer to them as anchor men and women, started telling us we were in a recession and the newest thing is we should start hoarding food.  Are you kidding me?  Where did this come from? People have been irresponsible with their money for years and people have been foreclosing on their houses for almost as long. Then one day they start telling us we are in a recession.  So, is it true?  Well I sure don’t think so, and finally someone besides me said it. She wasn’t very brave, but she at least made an attempt. I will copy and paste a part of the article.

“Economy grows by only 0.6 percent in 1st quarter of 2008
Wednesday April 30, 9:14 am ET
By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer

Economy limps ahead at a 0.6 percent pace in first quarter, better pace than expected

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bruised economy limped through the first quarter of this year at only 0.6 percent as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.

The country’s economic growth during January through March was the same as in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The statistic did not meet what economists consider the classic definition of a recession, which is a retraction of the economy. This means that although the economy is stuck in a rut, it is still managing to grow, even if modestly.”

Did you catch it the economy grew over the last three months and wasn’t any worse than it was the last quarter of last year.  So that means that we haven’t gotten any worse in 6-7 months.  Gas prices are up exponentially, along with food prices, and they are on the tv telling us every day that the economy is so bad and they still couldn’t stave off growth.  It may have been smaller that past years, but I think half of that is from the pounding of the media telling us we are in a recession and to hoard our food and money.

Don’t always believe what people say, especially when they work for CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, FoxNews, etc.