Don't Worry, Be Happy!!!

Silly me. Here I was thinking that my family wasn’t spending as much on “stuff” because we weren’t making as much money. But alas, it’s all my bad attitude, I guess.

From Gail Collins, in The New York Times.  The emphasis is mine.

Finally, we’re coming to a consensus about what’s wrong with the economy. It’s us. And our bad attitude.

Ben Bernanke says we’re too depressed. On Thursday, the Fed chairman suggested that consumers have an irrationally negative worldview.

“Even taking into account the many financial pressures that they face, households seem exceptionally cautious,” he told an audience in Minnesota, where the Twins are in last place, attendance at the state fair was way down and the state’s best-known elected official is Michele Bachmann. Also, star hockey player Dustin Byfuglien was arrested on Lake Minnetonka on suspicion of boating while intoxicated.

Ben Bernanke = #clueless.

And there’s more.

On Friday, President Obama told Americans to “shake off all the naysaying and the anxiety and the hand-wringing.” He is on the road, following up on the big jobs speech he gave before Congress. It got a pretty good reaction, which would probably have been even more positive if the television broadcasts had not been interspersed with reports that Homeland Security was searching for a trio of terrorist truckers.

I will just chalk my anger at getting rejected for a health insurance plan based on a bogus precondition to “naysaying.” Not sure what to do about the anxiety related to possibly having no health insurance.

Guess I just don’t have enough of that “can do” mentality to call myself a true American.