[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2014-09-29 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not happy about the current state of the US (nor of lots of other countries), but I wouldn't say it's disaster time for 98.8 percent of people, either. Not yet.

[identity profile] bruce munro (from livejournal.com) 2014-09-30 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
How are you defining disastrous? It's easy to say things are not too bad if your standard is, say, an African warlord rampage zone.

(Hm. Perhaps that came off a little harsh. What I mean to say is that it came off to me a little dismissive of the bottom 20% which are barely hanging on by their fingernails.)
Edited 2014-09-30 01:27 (UTC)

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2014-09-30 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I only meant to sound dismissive toward Rose's Mr. Millions, not anyone else. It just seems to me there's a difference between a depression and a prepper-scenario disaster, as I said in a comment above.