The few
"These really are good times but only a few know it." --- Henry Ford, 1931
"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession. We've sort of become a nation of whiners." --- Phil Gramm, 2008
By 1931 the people had stopped listening to the few who "knew" that these were good times.
I don't think we've quite reached that point in '08, but we're pretty damn close.