Economic downturn--what a multi-functional phrase! I’m sorry, due to the economic downturn I can’t possibly donate to your cause”. “I’m sorry that I have to lay you off, but the economic downturn...”. I can’t possibly pay you back the $50 I borrowed last week, the economic downturn...It seems to me that the “economic downturn” has become the excuse of the year. This is not to say that the economic downturn hasn’t been devastating to a huge percentage of the population, because it has been. But I have heard the term used to justify some of the stupidest behaviour. For example, take the well dressed, middle aged man sitting in a BMW SUV (I’m not dissing the vehicle...just the driver) who I watched try to get out of a parking ticket by claiming that the economic downturn made it virtually impossible for him to drop the mandatory $4 in the parking meter. Whaaaaat?
Has the term been used to the point that it has lost its significance or are we becoming so immune to the bad things in life, that we are willing to ignore their significance and toss phrases like “economic downturn” around like they are little more than half-assed excuses for poor behaviour?
Sheesh.
Begin again
1 year ago
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