Hype is Our History

By Kris Broughton

Last night, I was half-listening to Campbell Brown wonder out loud about the stimulus package President Obama is trying to get through Congress, and what America had to do to fix its economic crisis when she said, “we’ll be right back after this.”

The commercials that followed were a glitzy lineup of hype for stuff I really didn’t need to have. A nation full of people with no money to buy stuff we don’t really need in the first place is one of the reasons for this economic crisis. Our economy, it seems, only has one speed - full bore - anything less and it begins to sputter, like the engine on a drag racer when you try to let it idle.

We live in the land of hype …

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