Difficult Economic Times & Climbing

In today's economy or the preferred media preface "in these difficult economic times" officially stuck the landing on a nerve that can no longer be tolerated, my last one. I just dared myself to gauge the number of references to the dreaded phrase in Google which returned 82,800,000 results. More than Barrack Obama, which presently registers 1,430,000. That's not twice as many, not four times as much, but rather 57 times as many.

I searched a few others to illustrate how out of hand this phrase has become.

In These Difficult Economic Times - 82,800,000
Disney World - 32,900,000
Brad Pitt - 29,700,000
Jessica Simpson - 30,900,000
Tiger Woods - 16,900,000
Global Warming - 34,900,000
Hybrid Cars - 8,900,000
Alternative Fuels - 24,200,000

I'll check back in a few weeks to gauge it again. I can promise you that it will continue to grow as the phrase has ironically become the bread and butter for the media to capture the attention of its partons.