- Every day when the Dow sinks, my heart
soars. It makes me feel good.
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- I hope the Dow goes all the way down
to 500.
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- No, I'm not scheming to make my fortune
by selling short in a crashing stock market.
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- I'm rooting for a total economic meltdown
because, at this point, I think a depression is about the only bloodless
event that could bring the United States to its senses.
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- Recently I was conducting interviews
for a story on the possibility of a depression in 1999. When I asked one
fellow about the social consequences of a depression, I got an answer I
wasn't expecting.
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- "It would be good for us,"
said James Dale Davidson, co-author of 'The Great Reckoning'... a rather
prescient book that predicted the present global economic crisis seven
years ago.
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- Davidson, who has researched just about
every depression in recorded history, says that while they are obviously
economic disasters, they have always been a boon to America's national
mental and spiritual health. People start caring again about the things
that really matter: they return to church, they are forced to care for
elderly family members, and their addictions to material things come to
an abrupt halt. They actually look to God for mercy, and lose their defiance
to the laws of the United States and of God. You know, like lying under
oath?
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- If the Great Reckoning comes, millions
of retirement plans, perhaps even my own parents, may be erased in a day.
Unemployment might surge to 26 percent, as it did in the 1930s. Millions
of American children would go through a Christmas without any presents
under the tree. People will lose their homes and cars. The most vulnerable
among us will go hungry. I could lose my job.
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- And it would be worth it. After all,
"What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or
forfeit his very self?" (Luke 9.25)
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- Most Americans, very accustomed to living
fat and happy, say they don't care if the nation's highest law enforcement
official committed perjury or obstructed justice by intimidating witnesses
and encouraging others to lie. They support their beloved Mafia don in
the Oval Office...this disarming cross between Jethro Bodine and Michael
Corleone.
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- Americans boo Ken Starr, who is such
a nerd that he actually thinks obeying and upholding the law and the Constitution
are more important than national prosperity, i.e. more camcorders, hot
tubs and cosmetic surgery. Evil is good. Good is evil.
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- This is a nation that deserves to have
its head handed to it.
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- If you have children, you should be concerned
that someday they may have to pay a very high price for this national orgy
of moral relativism.
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- Because we will pay something. If you'll
allow me the use of what is now viewed as a quaint Victorian description,
wicked nations like this one, that make the decisions we have made, pay
for it.
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- I hear a freight train coming, and it's
the wrath of God. May we only pay in material comfort and money, if God
would be so merciful.
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- Bring on the depression. Come quickly.
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