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No matter how bad things get, don't worry - it'll never be a Depression. This place could end up like Ethiopia and it'll never get worse than what every pundit, economist and newsperson is saying -- it's - at worst - ...
"The Worst Recession Since The Great Depression."
And the pundits and economists will be shouting this in their rags from their hovels and unrolling 20 linear feet of charts and graphs and statistics and history and histograms and bell curves and dozens of columns with thousands of numbers, ratios, random samples and standard deviations -- and therefore continue to prove to us all their case that things are better than everyone thinks. In fact we're in a slow recovery.
All you -- the one living in the mud hut with your family eating slugs and drinking putrified water -- have to do is look up and see their unravelled scrolls of gorgeous, multi-hued Power Point charts glistening in the sun - and that should bring you a sigh of relief.
"Glory be! My family and I haven't eaten for days, some of us have beriberi and scurvy and I have a fungus growing under my esophagus - but my Lord - look at that - GDP is still heading up!!! Molly, we're gonna be ok after all! More than that -- we ARE ok!!!"