I can not help anyone feel any better about this. I may be able to offer a point of view that will allow an “opening” for one to deal better with the way things ARE---or at least accept the way things are. If I take a nice 6” diameter balloon and blow it up to 6” in diameter, I end up with a nice 6” balloon. Now let’s take that same balloon and blow it up with a lot of “hot-air” to 12” in diameter. What I then have is an over-inflated 6” balloon----but nonetheless still a 6” balloon. Who is responsible for the misperception that it is a 12” balloon? I think the same person that now realizes that it is actually just a 6” balloon after all, is the same person that was responsible for the illusion/delusion in the first place. If even a regular old fashioned 6” diameter balloon is vulnerable to the pins and needles of life, what are we to think of 12” diameter balloons? And who put the hydrogen in it anyway? POP!
There is a lot of talk about the gazilliontrillion dollars of value that we all have lost since the balloon burst----which translates into things not being worth what they used to be worth.
Charles Buell
Seattle Home Inspectors, Charles Buell Inspections Inc, Seattle, Wa
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Happy Father's Day Charles!
Thanks Tammy. Today I go to Olympia to hear my daughter and her band play. She plays bass in a band call the Lickets from San Francisco.
What does she play Charles? My daughter used to play the trumpet, but did not keep it up after "marching band". I love brass. Thanks for the link.
Bass:)
POP went the balloon.
Rebecca, I wish someone could tell me whether it popped or just went back to being 6" in diameter:)
The balloon was over inflated and I believe has resumed normal size. Our perception needs to get readjusted.
James, you know those "wrinkles" a balloon gets when it starts to deflate? Me thinks people don't like the looks of the wrinkles:) I think we are going to have to get used to them.
Mr Charles,
Swish...this post of yours is going right over my head. It went over so fast it knocked my ears off. I do not get it. Is it related to Pop Goes the Weasel.
Nutsy
Charles, Happy Father's Day! You're right, people just need to change their perception and move on to what is rather than cry over what was.
Charles, that explanation is just way.... too easy. No economist is going to accept that :-)
(So, why did they say the bubble burst?).
I think those wrinkles could be cured by Botox and liposuction. :)
James, Mary Murphy seemed to think Botox was a good idea until she slipped up on national TV a week or so ago. :) Kate
Nutsy, I think you popped a few brain cells
Andrew, I am not sure whether the balloon popped so much as deflated
James, one must be VERY VERY careful with needles around balloons
Kate, I missed that one----fortunately I don't watch much TV:)
Charles, what a terrific way to explain our situation. What caused the hot air? A bunch of bad loan programs that allowed ANYONE to buy a house, and then it drove up property rates.
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Thanks Regina----I think a lot of people still want to hold onto the idea that the balloon should be BIG!