Woe is us.
It seems like everyone I talk to has a story about how the economy is effecting their lives. Even my friends in Bentonville were not spared from the financial meltdown as the Wal-Mart Home Office laid a bunch of them off a week or so ago. Here on the homestead we are strapping down tightly and making sure every penny counts. That means we are cooking at home more, not planning any vacations, canceling unused memberships to the gym and even considering eliminating cable. The side affect of this is that my wife and i are developing a closer bond and have more love for each other than ever before.
I am definitely grateful that we have a thoughtful and even keeled person in the white house. He's no saint, and isn't foreign to mistakes, but the way he is handling his missteps shows he is a man of great character. I know no single person can turn the world's problems on their heads. It takes all of us to steer the boat in the right direction.
The stimulus package passed just days ago, and already Republican leaders are living up to their typical politician stereotypes by refusing to accept funds in their states. Politicians will be politicians, I can accept that. The backlash from even the far right constituency to such narrow minded partisan antics will be severe if these elected officials continue to act like selfish politicrats. The evidence was there in interviews with citizens of the southern states on NPR tonight. Go ahead Republicans, let's see if denying your citizens the help they need gets you reelected.
Republican leaders need to wake up to the fact that they lost power of the government by playing the partisan politics card. The old school will be asked to leave if it doesn't learn the new lessons.
America is growing up. It has fallen and bruised it's hind end a bit in the recent past. But it will over come those missteps as long as the people continue to listen to reason and don't take the bullheaded stance that change is bad. Change is good. It's a necessity. Embrace it and learn from it.
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Hear, hear. Rufa and I have definitely tightened the purse strings over the past year and it's amazin how little you really need to get by and be happy.
I may not agree with all of Obama's plans but I give him credit for talking intelligently and mostly straight with the American people (although I wish his rhetoric would focus a little more on the personal irresponsibility that contributed to the crisis, rather than just greedy corporations and bad Bush policies.) I also worry that the stimulus is excessive to the point of being bad fiscal policy. I’m worried about the US government staying solvent, and China showing up and slapping a lien on the White House!
Perhaps most interestingly, I also feel like we won’t be able to truly evaluate these things until 5, 10, or even 20 years out, and even then it’s hard to isolate true cause and effect relationships in something as complex as our modern economy. That’s what bothers me the most I think. That Obama will be praised or blamed for the state of the economy in 6 months or 12 months.
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