Pessimism

We Americans are deeply dissatisfied with direction of our country. Don’t look now but the r word is ready to take its place on the table. Recession is on the horizon and it’s not going to be pretty. The dollar is at an all time low. The middle class is shrinking. Conflicts are springing left and right. Debt is rising but we mortgage the future for instant gratification. We consume and consume to fill an empty void. Some turn to religion others turn to flat screen teevees to make them feel better. At the end of it all is that what life is really about. Working a nine to five and a part time so we can buy nice things to fill a void. Or spend our days praying that there’s an afterlife in which there are no worries and eternal happiness presides. At least for me that’s what it feels like.

The only optimistic people in the U.S. are the younglings and a delusional twenty eight percent of the population. Don’t get me wrong I’m a glass half full kind of gal but I’m also a realist. There is nothing in the foreseeable future that will right this ship. Innovation is stagnant. Manufacturing is nonexistent. Lately it’s seems like the U.S. economy is based on bubbles. First it was the Internet bubble and now it’s the housing bubble. Is any of this money real? We’re stuck in a quagmire with no end sight. The world either hates us or ignores us. We condone torture then claim we’re the protectors of human rights.



See Ya

L