{"id":454,"date":"2008-07-11T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=454"},"modified":"2008-07-11T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:01:24","slug":"whining-about-waiting-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Whining about waiting in line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So John McCain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/10\/AR2008071003108.html?sid=ST2008071003177&amp;pos=list\" target=\"_blank\">left to address<\/a> Phil Gramm&#8217;s remarks that we have become a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/11campaign.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">nation of whiners<\/a><\/em> who are merely in a <em>mental recession<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is a mental recession? Well, let&#8217;s do a little comparison of a mental recession with an economic depression.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo!News<\/a>) in which we see people queued up&#8230; waiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e55395e48e8833-pi\" style=\"display: block\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e55395e48e8833-800wi\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c520f53ef00e55395e48e8833\" alt=\"Iphone_whiners\" title=\"Iphone_whiners\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now take a look at a photo (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/ozar\/historyculture\/ccc-2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">National Park Service<\/a>) in which we see another group of people queued up&#8230; waiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e553b1606b8834-pi\" style=\"display: block\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e553b1606b8834-800wi\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c520f53ef00e553b1606b8834\" alt=\"Depression-Food-Line\" title=\"Depression-Food-Line\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference?<\/p>\n<p>In the first photo, the people are <strong>waiting to buy<\/strong> <strong>the latest iPhone<\/strong> (circa 2008), while in the second photo, the people are <strong>waiting to be given something to eat<\/strong> (circa 1930s).<\/p>\n<p>First photo = mental recession.<br \/>\nSecond photo = economic depression.<\/p>\n<p>First photo = nation of whiners.<br \/>\nSecond photo = nation of those eager, but unable, to provide for their families.<\/p>\n<p>[tag]phil gramm, nation of whiners, mental recession, obama, john mccain[\/tag]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So John McCain is left to address Phil Gramm&#8217;s remarks that we have become a nation of whiners who are merely in a mental recession? What exactly is a mental recession? Well, let&#8217;s do a little comparison of a mental recession with an economic depression. Below is a photo (courtesy Yahoo!News) in which we see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,15,26,28,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-democrats","category-economics-taxes","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rusty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}