COEUR d'ALENE -- With the economy at the top of the national conscience, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch sees light at the end of the tunnel.
"My sense is we've pretty well hit the bottom," Risch said Wednesday during an editorial board meeting with The Press. "To me the worst is behind us."
Citing unemployment rates that have leveled in more than 20 states around the country and rebounding real estate numbers, the first-term senator with a background in forestry described the economic landscape as a field of green growing after a forest fire.
"If you've ever seen the green shoots that grow after a burned-out forest, that's as good a comparison as any," he said. "That's where we're at."
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Others think differently:
From the American Free Press:
The Agenda: The Restructuring of the Global Political Economy
Before the meeting began, Bilderberg investigative journalist Daniel Estulin reported on the main item of the agenda, which was leaked to him by his sources inside. Though such reports cannot be verified, his sources, along with those of veteran Bilderberg tracker, Jim Tucker, have proven to be shockingly accurate in the past. Apparently, the main topic of discussion at this year's meeting was to address the economic crisis, in terms of undertaking, “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty ... or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.” Other items on the agenda included a plan to “continue to deceive millions of savers and investors who believe the hype about the supposed up-turn in the economy. They are about to be set up for massive losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead,” and “There will be a final push for the enactment of Lisbon Treaty, pending on Irish voting YES on the treaty in Sept or October,”[1] which would give the European Union massive powers over its member nations, essentially making it a supranational regional government, with each country relegated to more of a provincial status.
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