Not Finishing Well

I have been thinking about the 16 women who have come forward to accuse Bill Cosby. Even discounting some piing on, there is enough here to make conclusions:
Finishing well is important.
Transparency would have cured this - it would all be dead air today
No matter how much good you do in life, your sin will find you out
Reputation is of no effect if there are terrible things hidden
A drop of poison in a gallon of pure water is still poison
What happened unresolved 40 years ago is still current information

I'm sure there are others. If you have serious darkness in your past... you will have to deal with them/it eventually.
The key question is do you want to have your heart broken NOW or LATER?

Idiots in charge

Remember these?

In many restaurants they no longer exist. People "Steal" all the sweeter, sometimes the salt and pepper shakers and for certain clean out the racks of jellies. THIS IN LILLY WHITE ST CHARLES. Peggy and Sue Allen were out to lunch the other day. They ordered something that needed jelly. They brought them a container, explaining that they no longer put out mass quantities. It has become normative for some people to abuse merchants and restaurant by taking more ketchup, mustard, Jelly and such than they need. Of course there's the bottomless medium size fountain drink people order. Our culture has lost honor. We no longer do the Right thing. Therefore Father cannot bless us individually or culturally. There was a time when you could drop money on the floor and expect it to be there when you came back in an hour. Honor has been lost. When the culture of Honor is destroyed everyone suffers. I know it's hard, but it's time to call time out on the cultural decline. Honor is doing the right thing, even if it costs you money. Telling the truth. Not cheating. Full service for full pay. No gaming the system. It's time to get our culture back and sadly, it starts with YOU and ME.

 

I guess the fact that they couldn't get out is the sad part. In light of abortion, it's nothing.. but still in all not a good thing

‘Nothing Could Have Survived’: More Than 30 Horses Die in Stable Fire Outside Chicago

CHICAGO (TheBlaze/AP) — More than 30 horses died in a stable fire in suburban Chicago over the weekend, with distraught owners of the animals arriving Sunday to lay flowers at the site, a fire department official said. The fire Saturday occurred at Valley View Acres, a boarding facility 50...

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Tell me you haven't been tempted

Something to prepare you for BLACK FRIDAY

WRONG SOLUTION to this problem.

This happened because:
People are really quick to call 9-11 for any reason.. fire departments hate cell phone reports. You can be burning a tiny pile of leaves and the engines show up because someone called it in.. we have too many nanny fanny callers. This "gun" was called in. The caller said it was probably fake. The cops didn't get that message.
He was a 12 year old kid. Watched lots of gun play on TV. Cop shows where all the cops all the time are sticking their guns into their waistbands. He was doing what he saw.

Cops are really really edgy. They fear for their life and I get it.. yet he kid DIDN'T aim the gun at anyone. It helped not at all that the kid is black. IF this had been a white kid, the time frame between reaching for the toy and a bullet in the head would be much longer.
SO SOME GUY wants to do something with marking the toy guns. That won't help much. It's a culture problem .. Calls by cell phone. Patterning on TV cop shows. Cops who maybe don't have the capacity to be cops in emotional intelligence.
CULTURAL FAILURE all around

Cleveland boy’s fatal shooting prompts call for fake guns to be brightly marked

A legislator plans to introduce legislation to require all BB guns, air rifles and airsoft guns sold in Ohio to have fluorescent strips

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UNINTENDED CIRCUMSTANCE

I have already gone on record as saying that what President Obama did was legal, if unwise, declaring that he would not deport people who are here, but not legally. There is a problem that is an unexpected consequence.
You are Jose Garcia (sort of a Hispanic John Smith). You have been here with your family for 7 years. You heard the President. You want to believe him. You also understand that it's an executive order. About the weakest thing any law can be. It can be overturned in a minute. Certainly in two years a new President might well overturn it.

So the President says in his speech, "Come out of the shadows, register, we'll let you stay, pay your back taxes, become legal in your work and life".
That sounds great at first and then Mrs Garcia says, "Jose, if we register, if we come out of the shadows they will know who we are, where we live, what we do, where we work and by extension who our children and friends are." Jose, thinks it over and says.. you are right. We will leave it alone. The fear of a reversal of this policy will cause most Illegals to stay in the shadows. I would. Wouldn't you?
One other unintended circumstance is that MORE illegals will come not fewer. What you do speaks so loud they can't hear what you are saying Mr President.
But I guess those in the White House can't think past these things. On the other hand, if I'm in congress or senate today, maybe we permanently codify the President's mandate and that WOULD solve something. That would mean putting politics aside..and that will never happen..

Once the illegals can compete in the workplace for jobs as equals, they will kick butt and you will lose. Lazy, untrained, unmotivated, union types, who watch a clock, who were educated in public schools, who never learned to work, who don't know what it means to put in the extra effort, who are unable to do what needs to be done or worse unwilling.. THEY will now go to the far back of the line in the employment potential line. This newly legalized work force will soon capture all the real jobs that actually pay something and leave the losers sorting thru the scraps. Welcome to the Hope and Change you voted for.

Despite highest poverty numbers in 50 years, Obama okays illegals to compete for jobs in US

The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won.

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Cops go where there is crime. Shootings and killings in certain neighborhoods is a crime. Murder and assault. So if there are a lot of killings and assault in a neighborhood, then there will be a lot of cops in that neighborhood. That seems to be pretty clear to me.. but I guess this guy on meet the press doesn't agree....or he is intentionally ignorant. This isn't racist, only truth seems that way sometimes.

Giuliani: ‘White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other.’

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's remarks on black-on-black crime on "Meet the Press" triggered immediate backlash on the Web.

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I have never been to Alaska.. Hope to go someday. IN THE SUMMER. I guess I get around. I have some favorites, but they are all beautiful in their own way.

States I've Visited: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD,...

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I asked yesterday if there was a superior culture on the earth. I got some interesting answers.

 In our PC world of diversity, inclusiveness and tolerance we are told that all cultures are equal. None better than another. They all have ups and downs. Yet as we look around the world we see that is not true. There is a culture that is superior to all others. It's the Kingdom Culture. I would call it Christian Culture, but that would be limiting to some. There is a culture that demands from it's citizens to stay in right standing. Tolerance is allowed but there are lines. We have tried to legislate this with government. That isn't how it works, it's not how it works at all. You can't change a culture from world to kingdom without a change of heart. If you see a broken culture it's a heart problem. So then the question is, what are the hallmarks of a perfect culture, a kingdom culture. What does that look like? AND YES, it does have to do with values, worldview and behavior. Here's a shocker, if all people share in the Kingdom as Culture, they will all be alike. There is no diversity in culture if it's kingdom. It's time to stop excusing cultural decline and blaming circumstances. There is a Kingdom Culture.. now lets define it. Better yet, let's become it.

I guess they will have to come and repossess your brain.

 This is fixable.. but no one wants to tackle it. I have tried to talk to people in congress.. but they have no interest in repairing the system.. BIG BANKS WOULD GET MAD. So they will kick the can down the road like the cowards they are and let these people twist in the wind.

A Third of All Federal Student Loans Could Go Bad, Treasury Advisory Committee Warns

Four years after the federal government took over the student loan program, nine percent of student loans are in default, defined as 270 days without a payment,...

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This guy needs a pack of cigarettes and a six pack bad

AMAZING photo from Buffalo

FOX 13's Paul Dellegatto

Looks like some sort of underground mole colony in West Seneca NY.

The left is turning on ObamaCare... You knew that this would happen, The supreme court will be the silver bullet that puts this monster to death.

4 hrs ·

'Dumbstruck' Bob Schieffer Has A Bold Challenge For ObamaCare Architect Gruber

Had a conservative suggested this, liberals would denounce it as ironclad evidence of racism. When it emanates instead from CBS News, the problem being cited...

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This is a blog of a man who lives near the mess in Ferguson MO.

 The whole protest has been hijacked by other forces to create instability in the USA.

Reveal: Hijacking Of A Movement

enterinmedia.blogspot.com|By Reveal

Islam in Ferguson

Muslim groups seek to co-opt Ferguson protests, says watchdog group

Muslim activists have stepped up efforts to “hijack” protests over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, with a drive to equate the teen’s death to...

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lies make up the chain that binds you.

I wish you could have heard this discouraged almost tearful call from a black man from South Carolina who realizes that his community has been duped.. he called into Rush Limbaugh today. It was riveting stuff. His comment about becoming a second class minority was rough. I am chastised for being hard on people who support these misleaders, but someone has to say STOP. You are being a sucker for the big lie again. I also know that those who want to avoid the pain will unfriend me. Would you want to keep taking the Blue Pill and stay in the matrix of lies or the Red Pill and come out of the darkness? It will be painful, but the lies make up the chain that binds you.

Caller: Black Leaders Sold Us Out - The Rush Limbaugh Show

CALLER: We're becoming more and more second class minorities... The likes of Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, Tom Joyner, et al, you name 'em all, we are right now facing all kinds of dire needs economically. We don't have jobs.

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illegal Illegal alien Amnesty Act

President Obama is about to announce his unilateral illegal Illegal alien Amnesty Act. Just so you understand what this is about. They second class minorities are about to be shoved aside to become the third class minorities. An HOUR after amnesty is announced Luis Gutierrez will begin to cry for voting rights for illegals. Just watch and see. This is all an effort to firm up the democrat voting base with new voters.. even if you have to import them and print the ballots in Spanish.

So much for the idea that there is no harm to anyone by gay marriage

 

Idaho city’s ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, city officials have laid down the law to Christian pastors within their community, telling them bluntly via an ordinance that if they refuse to...

washingtontimes.com|By Cheryl K. Chumley

TROOT

I bought a whole bag at Walgreens. They are EXACTLY as I remember them

Should these people be allowed to vote??

I don't think so. There should be some basic civics knowledge before you participate in the biggest decisions in our nation. Suffrage should be literacy based.

Who Won The Civil War? Tough Question

When it comes to on-the-spot answers to simple historical and political questions, some people don't have a clue.

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My policy on this would be simple.

No medical bill can ever be for more than 20% of a person's AGI in a single year. Anything over the 20% is covered by an insurance pool which is in essence a catastrophic policy paid for BY the medical community. It's upside down inside out health insurance policy. So simple it works. Incentives are to keep costs down, and keep premiums down. Yet the free market applies for most medical activity.

Million-dollar baby: Hawaii vacation leaves Sask. parents with massive medical bill

A Saskatchewan couple is facing bankruptcy after receiving a medical bill for nearly $1 million stemming from an unexpected premature birth.

globalnews.ca|By Clare Clancy

I stopped singing in some churches a LONG TIME ago.

 This article is right. Prophetic Worship works for me. Hymnody works. But most of the "tunes" touted as worship aren't. When I first got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost we would sing the same scripture song 20 times. By 15 we started to get it. There is great theology in some Hymns and some of the earlier songs. I NEVER listen to K-LOVE any more. Sorry.. I'm a pagan I guess. I wish I could make every worship leader read this. Many are demonized by Jezebel or sexually confused. I will say Kathy Summers and Brad Hampton are exceptions to the rule.. but let's get the demons off the platform. Pure worship is PURE. 20 years ago Pastor Schmidgal would sit on a chair, head hung down, mic in hand, and begin singing "we worship and adore you, bowing down before you". AND WORSHIP WOULD BREAK OUT. You don't need a big band to have worship.. just a pure heart.

Nine Reasons People Aren’t Singing in Worship | Renewing Worship

Worship leaders around the world are sadly changing their church’s worship (often unintentionally) into a spectator event, and people are not singing any more.

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If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes, you might want to check your pulse.

 I saw James Brown in Concert in Merrillville IN years ago. Even as he was older, it was wonderful. As an opera fan I loved Pavarotti. Two great talents standing not in contrast to one another but as complements. We have had greatness among us.. and these two are truly great. I miss them both.

James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It's a Man's World

James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It's a Man's World Great performance of two Legends

I have shared this with a few people privately.

 It's now time to go public with a vision of the days to come. I see what will (or might) happen as Radical Islam expands in the USA. What we saw in Israel in the Synagogue will happen here.
No one in government seems to realize that Radical Islam in the USA is a clear and present danger that must be dealt with at once. They are out to cause fear and havoc. They want to divide the USA into groups.. that process is already underway. The racial divide is deepened because of Islamic influence. The right to HATE the OTHER has become normative. Ferguson is adding to this divide. I see Islam as part of this division.

There must be an aggressive answer to Islam on our shores. I know many see these people as a mission field and Jesus is reaching many, but this demon released in November 2012 is manifesting more aggressively than anyone thought they could. We cannot let them victimize this nation without an answer. God will not sanction a weak response.
I am praying against an attack being planned right now. I have heard their strategy in a vision (a dream). It will happen at a shopping mall on the east coast.. Maryland or DC. They will grab some shoppers at random around Christmas time and behead them publicly in a parking lot. Yes the attackers will be killed (72 virgins await) but the deed will be done. This is designed to create fear and anger. This will work for a while, but until we face the reality of the internal threat to our nation, we cannot deal with it. Islam is a demon that has invaded this country and will not rest till it brings the nation to it's knees. Our leadership has no answers.

I have not been to Africa at all. Nor The Middle East. Nor India. Nor Russia or Poland (I want to go). Saw enough of the Far East.

Visited Countries

I visited 35 countries out of 250. That's 14% of all countries in the world! Build your own free Visited Countries map like this and share on Facebook or add as interactive widget to your website.

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Why I don't

 

5 Seniors Die after Flu Shot at Assisted Care Center in Georgia

Health Impact News has just received urgent information from health care workers at Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care in Dacula, Georgia. According to our...

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Being Light as he is in the light.

Tanner Clark

Tim Tebow leading prayer on set at the SEC channel yesterday. Let us all always remember to Be The Light! - courtesy of Rob Havens, Aggieland Illustrated.

Send them Home

Next time you hear any politician talk about Palestine and the "Injustice" there, take note of this. After the Synagogue murders yesterday, they CELEBRATED HATE. I have come to the conclusion that a return to desert is the only hope for Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian areas. Send them back to Jordon.. except Jordon doesn't want them..

Ron Cantor

Laughing out Loud

A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: 'I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you.'
She answers, 'My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.'
'Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.' She responds, 'Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1 , you have to be single, and #2, you must be Catholic.' The cab driver is very excited and says, 'Yes, I'm single and Catholic!'
'OK' the nun says. 'Pull into the next alley.' The nun fulfills his fantasy, with a kiss that would make a hooker blush.
But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.
'My dear child,' says the nun, 'why are you crying?'
'Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must Confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish.'
The nun says, 'That's OK...my name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween Party.'

PHONY BALONEY

Democrats and particularly this administration have no respect for their voters. They think they are stupid fools who need to be treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed horse poop, in order to Hornswoggle them with phony legislation like Obamacare. I know some people take offense at the Appellation "low information voters". I think we have now seen an illustration of that in action once again. Despite all this there is a segment of the electorate that will support this president and his policies no matter the level of corruption and deception.

Dinesh D'Souza

Gruber is a puny operative in a culture of deceit that goes back to Alinsky and now defines this Obama caba

The miseducation of your Children

We have a whole group of people who have been "Uneducated" by our public education system who cannot read nor write in longhand. That's what we used to call cursive writing. IF I could do ONE thing to turn this country around, it would be to abolish public education. No parent would embrace a school system with their own money (vouchers) that dumbed down their children like public education does.

Outrage

From Linda Clay: I heard when muslims go into a place to pray . . . . they are showing it is a "take over". Think of our "prayer walks", . . . this is the same. . . it's basically symbolically showing islam has taken over the United States, since it occurred in the National Cathedral . . .AND . . these notes: "100 years ago today (Friday), the last Caliph, or emperor of Islam, declared the last Jihad against the infidel-- and today is the first time ever that the National Cathedral in the nation's capital will host Muslim prayers.

Rev. Franklin Graham Is Speaking Out After What Just Took Place At The National Cathedral

Reverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelist Billy Graham, said the Muslim prayer service on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, an Episcopal church established under a charter

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Slowly the democrats are waking up.. too slowly

This Democrat Is Giving Up on ObamaCare

In The Wall Street Journal, Burke Beu writes that the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act was the catalyst for his party’s midterm thumping.

online.wsj.com|By Burke Beu

I guess that now includes the National Cathedral

I have only read 6 of these ten. I guess I'm ignorant.

THE TOP 10 BOOKS VOTED MOST VALUABLE TO HUMANITY

1) The Bible (37%)
2) The Origin of Species (35%)
3) A Brief History of Time (17%)
4) Relativity (15%)
5) Nineteen-Eighty-Four (14%)
6) Principia Mathematica (12%)
7) To Kill a Mockingbird (10%)
8) The Qur’an (9%)
9) The Wealth of Nations (7%)
10) The Double Helix (6%)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Half-world-s-10-valuable-books…
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Half of the world’s 10 'most valuable' books were penned by scientists

A nationwide survey by London-based publisher, The Folio Society, set out to select the most valuable works to the human race and authors included: Charles Darwin, Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

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I don't think there's global warming, cooling or whatever, it's racism. In fact poor schools, traffic deaths, tornadoes, high taxes, ISIS, Iran Nuclear Threat, Drought in California, High price of OIL and shark attacks are ALL RACISM. ALL OF IT. I'm sure Rep Fudge would agree...

Congressional Black Caucus Chair: Dems Lost Midterms Because of Racist White Southerners

The Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Democrats got walloped in the midterm elections because white Southern voters are racists.

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Scorning base degrees

From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Brutus Speaking alone in his Orchard about Julius Caesar.. early on the Ides of March before he stabs him dead. Act 2 Scene 1
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

A more understandable translation of Shakespeare's rumination for Brutus early in the morning in his orchard:
""But everyone knows that an ambitious young man uses humility to advance himself, but when he reaches the top, he turns his back on his supporters and reaches for the skies while scorning those who helped him get where he is.""
I was reflecting today on the many young ministers who I helped along the way. Doors I opened for them. Contacts I made in their behalf. Generosity shown. Financially and otherwise. YET, now that they have become "big stuff" they barely know my name. I have become the base degree by which they did ascend to the top rung. They consider me with scorn, unless I show up and make a nice offering.
I'm not angry, I will continue to help young men and women advance. I only wish that among Christians it wasn't so.. but it is. We are no better than the world in our ceaseless thankless selfish ambition. Or why do we have so many "Apostles"?

These are all broken in Kane County Illinois particularly on the Mercedes and BMW

Traitor?

 

Dinesh D'Souza

The left is mad because Gruber violated the Alinsky rule—liars and and deceivers should not give speeches revealing their lies and deceit.

A Solvent Detroit Isn’t a Self-Sustaining Detroit

Charity by local magnificos should be a symbol of prosperity, not a substitute.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
God bless the child that’s got his own, goes the song. That won’t be Detroit, even after shedding $7 billion in debt in its just-concluded bankruptcy.

Detroit was once America’s fourth-biggest city, with its highest per capita income. But these days no city is more dependent on private philanthropy to keep it afloat. In the decade before its Chapter 9 filing, according to a study by Bloomberg News, Detroit relied on the equivalent of $600 per citizen per year in charitable contributions to perform fundamentally government-like functions such as housing subsidies and blight removal.
Then there’s the bankruptcy trial itself, which revolved around Detroit’s art collection, virtually the only valuable asset in the shrunken city’s possession. To take the Detroit Institute of Arts collection out of play to satisfy the city’s creditors, a group of philanthropies, including the Kresge Foundation, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation and others coughed up $360 million to be spread among a selected group of creditors, namely the city’s pensioners.
The state of Michigan and other governmental bodies also contributed to what became an $816 million settlement, arguing that the art collection is vital for the city’s revival and couldn’t be liquidated at anything close to its real value. Relegated to second-class status by this deal were bond insurers and other claimants who supposedly enjoyed equal status with pensioners in bankruptcy. These claimants will get none of the art proceeds.
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr speaks with the media after a press conference at the Detroit Institute of Arts in June. ENLARGE
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr speaks with the media after a press conference at the Detroit Institute of Arts in June. Getty Images
The museum will now become a charitable nonprofit trust dominated by its donors. No wonder private philanthropies were delighted with the deal and eager to supply the requisite rah-rah rhetoric about how the museum will be instrumental to the city’s resurrection. In effect, the charitable groups are getting control of the art collection (appraised value: at least $4.6 billion) for pennies on the dollar.
Detroit certainly has a future—lately the city has become a magnet for young urban settlers and entrepreneurs. But is Detroit really helped by assuming it must “take its place once again in the pantheon of America’s great cities,” as Kresge puts it?

A Solvent Detroit Isn’t a Self-Sustaining Detroit

In The Wall Street Journal, Business World columnist Holman Jenkins writes that charity by local magnificos should be a symbol of prosperity, not a substitute.

online.wsj.com|By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Who’s Afraid of a Little Deflation?

A sudden drop wouldn’t be good, but a steady annual decline of, say, 2%? Worries about that are overblown.
By John H. Cochrane
With European inflation declining to 0.3%, and U.S. inflation slowing, a specter now haunts the Western world. Deflation, the Economist recently proclaimed, is a “pernicious threat” and “the world’s biggest economic problem.” Christine Lagarde , managing director of the International Monetary Fund, called deflation an “ogre” that could “prove disastrous for the recovery.”

True, a sudden, large and sharp collapse in prices, such as occurred in the early 1920s and 1930s, would be a problem: Debtors might fail, some prices and wages might not adjust quickly enough. But these deflations resulted directly from financial panics, when central banks couldn’t or didn’t accommodate a sudden demand for money.
The worry today is a slow slide toward falling prices, maybe 1% to 2% annually, with perpetually near-zero short-term interest rates. This scenario would unfold alongside positive, if sluggish, growth, ample money and low credit spreads, with financial panic long passed. And slight deflation has advantages. Milton Friedman long ago recognized slight deflation as the “optimal” monetary policy, since people and businesses can hold lots of cash without worrying about it losing value. So why do people think deflation, by itself, is a big problem?
1) Sticky wages. A common story is that employers are loath to cut wages, so deflation can make labor artificially expensive. With product prices falling and wages too high, employers will cut back or close down.
Sticky wages would be a problem for a sharp 20% deflation. But not for steady 2% deflation. A typical worker’s earnings rise around 2% a year as he or she gains experience, and another 1%—hopefully more—from aggregate productivity growth. So there could be 3% deflation before a typical worker would have to take a wage cut.

Who’s Afraid of a Little Deflation?

In The Wall Street Journal, John H. Cochrane writes that a sudden drop wouldn’t be good, but a steady annual decline of, say, 2%? Worries about that are overblown.

online.wsj.com|By John H. Cochrane