Spanish views from a small town

In his autobiography, My Life and Hard Times , James Thurber described a man that would pop up in different places in his home town of Columbus, Ohio. The man was called the Get-Ready Man because he would shout out, "Get reeeaady! The wooorrlld is coming to an end!"  If the Get-Ready Man were to fast forward a hundred years, he would take one look and scramble back in time, saying, "I told you!" If then there were ominous rumblings, now the rumblings are become growls that fill the air and the ears. It doesn't matter where you look and what you see, portents of doom surround us.  Economically, the world is poised to enter another recession. The Great Recession of 2008 was the welcome to a new century in which the middle class entered its final decline. Policies from twenty years ago helped the recession gain traction. New policies that continued the choices from then helped recovery only in the macro-economics sense. The micro-economies, those of most househ...