This weak economy has caused many of us to behave in crazed, ill-mannered ways. The fervor and lunacy that has evolved brings to mind those overly popular, yet profound, words from Master Po in the television series Kung Fu - "Patience, Grasshopper. Patience."
It doesn't matter where I turn, it is only a matter of time until I hear someone complaining about the economy. Most aren't just calmly commenting on the current situation, they are downright angry; angry that our economy has not turned around yet and they are letting the rest of us know about it. Television, radio, internet, restaurants, bars, and even in our own neighborhoods, someone is demanding in an extra loud, curt fashion that things should have turned around for the better by now.
It's one thing to be upset, but what makes these futile ultimatums to the world so alarming is that many are accompanied by unsolicited and unwarranted finger pointing. Indignantly pointed in all directions. At the government. At Wall Street. At China. At Europe. At their former boss. And unfortunately even at our fellow neighbors.
While some of us are truly hurting and surely in need of desperate help, be it employment or a roof over our head, one need only look in the mirror when it comes to that finger pointing. As Jack Shephard says in the entertaining but confusing TV series Lost, "If we don't live together, we'll die alone."
That certainly is the case when it comes to the economic situation as well. As people spew animosity toward the government and its wasteful spending or ill-conceived attempts to help stimulate the economy, they forget that change for the better starts within first. They forget to look at themselves first before attacking others.
This country of ours was not built on individualism. It was built on strangers pushing their own personal issues aside and banding together to lay down the foundation for the free democratic society we all love to call home. Our founding fathers helped earn our independence, but they certainly didn't do it independently of one another. It also took them a lot of hard work and time, something I believe we all tend to lose sight of when times turn for the worst. It's in our nature to want instant gratification, we want the cure, the remedy, the magic pill right away.
Article comments
1 - Ruvy
You better have a gallon of patience, BizzaroGuy. This is an article from England on the shrinking money supply in the States - but then again, expecting the American media to cover this would be really expecting too much. I got this article on Facebook from broadcaster Martin Dzuris.
2 - The Real American
I fully understand your good intentions with this particular article, however you are obviously a very naive Optimist. Our leaders in Washington have no intention to fix this economy, nor even to get out of the way... rather, they are intentionally and willfully crashing it to further the Democratic and Republican Elite's own globalist agenda.
Read this article and then tell me what you honestly think....
3 - Chris Ballard
Great article. I believe you hit on something that many people are not willing to talk about, accountability with themselves. Many people are in their current financial situation because of their own spending habits. Sure many factors contribute the the overall state of the economy, but personal trouble is just that...personal.
Many people also don't have a good grasp on the business cycle, including the government. The economy is cyclical just like everything else, every 5-7 years there will be a growth period or a down period.
4 - zingzing
real american: "our leaders in washington[...] are intentionally and willfully crashing it to further the Democratic and Republican Elite's own globalist agenda."
sure. try living in the real world for a moment. that article is one big conspiracy theory clusterfuck. it's like wading through an orgy of drooling, lobotomized star trek fans.
5 - Clavos
drooling, lobotomized star trek fans.
That's redundant, zing...
6 - Glenn Contrarian
"Real American" has company - Dave Nalle once wrote an article claiming that Obama and his administration were deliberately sabotaging America's economy in order to perpetuate their hold on power.
Of course Dave took offense when I called him on his claim and pointed out how it made him look.
And zing - at least the trekkies are better than the uber-celibate-geekified dorkdom of D&Der's of decades past! Oh, wait - I did that one, too....
7 - zingzing
"That's redundant, zing..."
but it's when you add in the "orgy" that it gets really absurd.
8 - roger nowosielski
Yes, a figure of speech that blows your mind.
9 - Baronius
An orgy of trekkies? The one girl is gonna be busy!
Real American, I read that article. You want to know what I honestly think? It didn't offer a single bit of evidence for any of its claims. If someone didn't believe the claims in the article before, they wouldn't after reading it. If someone did, why bother reading it?
10 - zingzing
baronius: "An orgy of trekkies? The one girl is gonna be busy!"
given a blindfold and some lube, you can fuck belly fat. just try and get that out of your mind. it cannot be unseen.