For weeks now, Dean Baker has been sarcastically noting the apocalypse that news agencies like the Washington Post were predicting. Today, as I walked to the grocery store, I saw kids playing at the skateboard park—it was a nice day.
And yet: we had gone over the Fiscal Cliff! The sun shine?! The bird songs?! The utter lack of lakes of molten sulfur?! How could this be?!
So I decided to write to the brilliant Dr. Baker:
I don’t know how things are on the east coast, but here in California: burned out cars, corpses litter the landscape. I can’t believe we went over the fiscal cliff.
The horrors!
-Frank
PS: Happy new year and thanks for all your help this last year!
He responded in kind:
Pretty good—could only read this on power from the backup generator—running low on water.
Happy New Year,
Dean
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Let’s all get through this together.