First we were anticipating the holidays, they came and went. Then it was the inaugural...a new administration and so far it strikes me as politics as usual. No one will truly compromise to get anything done on the hill. Same-ol same-ol..And now, that little weasel in PA has seen his shadow again to tell us with no surprise we can look forward to six more weeks of winter. If it was the government that saw its own shadow, you can count on six more weeks of gridlock. So where is the good news?
The more I look at this economy and the talk that is stirring up about it the more I realize how much of the economy is a state of mind. It seems to me that the more people and especially the media talk about how bad it is...people start to believe it and then before long we're all wallowing in the misery. I'm sorry but I refuse to buy it. Can we be honest here? Sure we're all hurting and that's because we all need and depend upon each other in one way or another, someone produces the food you eat and someone else refines the gas we burn in our cars and everyone is getting the squeeze...I get all that.
I do not believe that the problems of this economy or the miasma we find ourselves in is going to be fixed or solved from the top...i.e the government, president et al. We cannot count on those people at the top to solve what is facing us. Remember, they are the one's who got us here in the first place with corruption, greed and blind-eyed political agendas.
Like most other crises we've faced in our lives, it's going to be a bottom up solution. It has to be solved from the grassroots up. We as people will figure out how to turn this thing around before the politcos will--count on that. The first thing we can do to improve the situation is quit talking about how bad things are...don't get caught up in the things we can't do but look for the things we can do...for ourselves and each other. There are opportunities for those who look for different ways of doing things..or different ways to approach our problems. I know that when the chips are down, I'm more than willing to work with my friends and neighbors to get through a situation than wait on the government to come up with a solution. There are greater brains out here in the citizenry than many might think. Let's put them to work to find other ways of accomplishing great things. Let's start talking to each other instead of AT each other.
Life is all about ATTITUDE. These are times when we must adjust our attitudes about the way we approach the future. We know that what got us here doesn't work so it's time to think a little differently and seek new and improved ways of getting us to where we want to be. I think it starts with attitude, determination and perseverance. What do you think?