(11-12-2013 08:55 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote: (11-12-2013 08:33 AM)Ken Barna Wrote: Dear Nick,
Constant yelling at players will not get them to perform better. Once in a while maybe. I'm also not calling for constant praise either. As a coach, English should have substituted players, if the ones playing were not performing to his standards. The season was one of watching players make the same mistakes in every game. They then went to practice and were yelled at all week, and then started the next game. What's the definition of insanity going around? I think English fit that perfectly.
Sorry yo disagree with you about our country, but I think we have been on the right track for the last five years.
I missed that altogether. What track are we on that is so bad? The economy has stunk for about nine or ten years and started to show signs of weakening well before that. Otherwise, not all that bad. I do know that if I had addressed my staff that way, or more to the point, my student-interns, for not follwoing through or being assertive enough on the job I wouldn't have lasted long, especially if my record as a manager wasn't sterling. And that goes back about 35 years before people started calling civilized behavior "politically correct".
Prior to 2007, unemployment was in the 4-5% range for several years (which is historically very low) and GDP was growing at a historically average rate and there were no major inflationary worries. Therefore, the economy has stunk only for about 6 years.
The last recession before that occurred when planes flew into buildings in NYC, Washington DC and a field in PA. Dramatic events like that tend to shock an economy into recession - even if no weakness was there prior to that. But it didn't last very long - which is a testament to the economy's strength at the time.
Since the end of the recession in 2009; growth has been weak, unemployemnt has not fallen back to "good times" levels of 4-6% (even with the government periodically deciding that 100s of thousands of people no longer count as unemployed because they have been unemployed too long), and the debt has grown faster than at any other time in our history.
Real wages have fallen. Poverty levels have risen. More households rely on food stamps than ever before (even corrected for population growth), and violent crime is on the upswing in many of our urban centers.
And now we stand by as trillions of printed dollars have been injected into the economy in the last few years by the FED's "quantitative easing" policy (which used to be called "monetizing the debt" and is very dangerous because it increases inflationary pressures) which disguise rampant increases in elected government spending (even as the excuses of foreign wars have ended).
The only thing that has recovered is Wall Street.
How is that "not all that bad"?
I would describe that as a dismal failure.
I don't know what that has to do with Ron English, EMU, Political Correctness or "challenging one's manhood" - I'm just correcting the economic analysis.
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