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February 22, 2009
Imagine the Future
Unprecedented national debt, huge stock market decline, job loss, world wide recession, failure of massive banks, partisan political arguments about what the government should do, blah, blah, blah. Enough already!
I'm pretty sure that everyone one the planet knows the situation is bad, but (some of) the media has gone way beyond covering the news, and broken through to hyperventilating about the trouble we're in. This is really not helpful.
These are tough times, but we're not going to get back what we had a few months or years ago. But that's not a bad thing - we have the opportunity, actually the responsibility to create something better than we had in the past.
A significant part of our savings has been wiped out. We've household income. We've lost a measure of the security we though we had. We're going to have to work longer and harder than we expected, and do without some of the things we expected or were enjoying. That's all pretty sad.
But beyond the tragedy of our loss, we have the chance of a lifetime to rebuild our lives and our nation. We'll discover new things about ourselves and the ones we love and our friends and neighbors. We'll find new ways to enjoy ourselves. And if we start rebuilding our lives the way we should be living, we'll build a country more focused on the things that are important, that really matter to all of us.
So lets imagine a better future. Maybe not so rich or lavish, but genuine and caring. We as a nation have done this before - we can do it again.
(Also, the picture above is by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and captures the essence of my thoughts today.)
Posted by pgutwin at February 22, 2009 3:36 PM