Anyone else feeling the sluggish economy?

[lib2DaBone]

snip < With the economy on the top of voters' minds, Republican presidential candidate John McCain's top economic adviser said , "We have sort of become a nation of whiners."

In an interview with the Washington Times, Phil Gramm, a former Texas senator who is now vice chairman of UBS, the giant Swiss bank, said he expects Mr. McCain to inherit a sluggish economy if he wins the presidency, weighed down above all by the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades and that America is in decline.

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China. >.......
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/09/mccain-adviser-addresses-mental-recession/

[phantom power]

1. I can't wait until he asks everybody to eat cake.

[jwirr]

2. No that is what his wife is supposed to say: Cake and beer.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. It's okay really. Phil Gramm told me today that it's all in my head.