(GK: Garrison Keillor; SS: Sue Scott: TR: Tim RuSSell, TK:Tom Keith)
GK... ....brought to you by the American Duct Tape Council, and here for duct tape is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan.
TR: (GREENSPAN) Right now, the country is beginning to emerge from a recessionary downturn, but it will be some time before the end of the recession turns into the beginning of recovery. Right now we're in the middle bottom portion of the end period, or what we might call the early front part of the pre-recovery period, and we should enter the early middle portion of the top third of pre-mid-recovery sometime in the next 2 to 3 or 4 to 6 months...to a year. However, if we take the bottom third of the first quarter and look at it with the top third of the second quarter, we see a fourth third or a sub-quarter in which we see growth and the creation of new jobs. If everyone would simply purchase duct tape tomorrow, it would help propel the economy forward. 'A roll to get us on a roll.' (MODEST) I made that up myself.
GK: A message from the American Duct Tape Council--- duct tape, it's almost all you need sometimes.
© Garrison Keillor 2002