The post-war prosperity dazzled his generation with its democratic cornucopian bonanzas. The innocence of all that is truly lost now. There is a dark sense of things shifting out there now in a major way. The tectonics of history are taking us to a strange place.
SHOOT: If the title of this post is confusing...further on in Jim's article he writes about Burger King's latest promotion, an "Angry Burger'. Is that how the public are going to vent their anger?
SHOOT: If the title of this post is confusing...further on in Jim's article he writes about Burger King's latest promotion, an "Angry Burger'. Is that how the public are going to vent their anger?
The dollar was up to its armpits in quicksand, and oil prices had crept stealthily into the death-to-airlines range, and if, in the old slogan, what's good for General Motors really is good for the USA, then destiny was dealing a harsh lesson to The Land of the Free -- while I made a drive on Thursday (in a Japanese rent-a-car) through the remotest ends of upstate New York State into the province of Ontario, Canada, to see what I could see. What I saw was pretty scary.
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