There's always hope: Amidst all doomsday talk, things have never been better.

Washington Times ^ | 05/14/2019 | Richard Rahn

[SeekAndFind]

For most people, particularly in the United States, things have never been better. Yet, the newspapers and airwaves are filled with stories of impending disaster. Many of the doomsday scenarios have been around for some time but doomsday has yet to arrive.

We were told by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, etc. that the Trump election would be an economic calamity and that we would be in major new wars by now. None of this happened — in fact, just the opposite — but sometime the boom will end, maybe next month, next year; no one knows with certainty. Unemployment was supposed to have increased, but instead, we have a job shortage. Income disparities were supposed to have increased, but they have declined. Low-wage people are actually experiencing faster wage increases than the middle class.

Many articles have been published about “the fact” that robots are going to take all of our jobs and there will be nothing for future generations to do — but this is always said about new technologies. Farms have been so automated that 1 percent of our workers grow virtually all of our food — where the figure was once something like 90 percent of the workers were on farms. It is not known from where all the new jobs will come, but come they will. How many people wrote code 50 years ago?

We are told that medical care will bankrupt us as the population gets older. But in all fields, except those micromanaged by government, things get faster and cheaper. Devices on or in our bodies will monitor our health on a real-time basis, allowing us to take care of most medical problems before they become big and expensive.

[Steely Tom]

As Rush Limbaugh said last week (or maybe it was a caller to his show), the Left always wants to keep us from living in the present, to distract ordinary people by getting them to spend their time feeling guilty about the past, or feeling terrified of the future.

This is one of his best insights in years.

[Thom Pain]

"How many people wrote code 50 years ago?"

Me! Started in September, 1968.

[Vaduz]

Doomsday Scenarios = News Media Inc.

[mjp]

Yet, the newspapers and airwaves are filled with stories of impending disaster.

Leftards are emotionalists. Their narratives depend on fear, hate, anger, and guilt to achieve their goals