BAIL OUT, SCHMAIL OUT


okay so i am plunging into the abyss otherwise known as my thoughts on the current status of our economy.

i know i'm not the only one that saw this coming. our country has too long been abusers of our wealth and success. we've taken a few too many things for granted and have been a spoiled society.

can you say: hummer, hdtv, flatscreen, bluetooth, ipod, iphone, portable dvd... i could go on.

the current standing of the stock market and economy has me a little unnerved. but then again it has me taking another look at my own life and my own way i've come accustomed to living. okay so i don't need that new iphone that i have been eyeballing. and a fancy-schmancy brand new car? yes please... but the hasselhoff should be good for now and i don't need to get him a new paint job just yet. or get a new computer that doesn't take 8 years to do anything. or a brand new ipod to make me look as cool as you think i am. and cute new clothes and shoes and bags every week? fine, i can make-do with what i've got!

so what's wrong with holding on to something until it doesn't work anymore? do i really need the latest and greatest or to upgrade just because i can? is it that necessary that i get a new outfit ever sing week to feel cute at church? well certainly not if it means that i go into debt for it. if i go out and get a credit card just so i can have these latest most amazing luxuries.

and same goes for you big dudes that still on capitol hill looking for earmarks to fund research on this, that or the other or for budgets that include your personal jet whisking you and the mistress off to cancun to have a "meeting." it's time to start living more carefully. time to save instead of spend. time to really ask if we REALLY and TRULY need all of the things we tack on to each and every bill that is trying to get passed... don't you think?

you'd think with 200+ years of making these same kind of mistakes and riding the economic roller-coaster we would have figured it out by now. but somehow the lure of THINGS and POWER and PROGRESS is far more seductive than prudence and humility and planning.

i guess until we get it, we'll always find ourselves having to ask for a loan. again.