Despite the recent glimmers of hope, we have been drinking from the fire hose of dreadful economic news for what seems like an eternity.
It started with those venerable financial institutions. Their unbridled greed led to hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars being gifted to these irresponsible financial institutions, who then repaid their benefactors by jacking-up interest rates on credit cards, all while preparing to pay billions of dollars in bonuses to their valued executives. Thank you, sir, may I have another?
Then there’s our auto companies. Too big to fail, but doing so in stunning fashion. Yet another taxpayer bailout of billions. Meanwhile, Chrysler has found another sucker in Fiat, while GM pins its hope on a $40,000 Volt with a 40 mile range. That’s $1,000 a mile. Hmm. I think I’ll take a Net Jet instead.
This might all be interesting, if in a depressing way, if millions of Americans were not so horribly affected by the resultant job loss. Our politicians love to argue about who’s fault that is, while focusing like lasers on their own reelections, rather than on doing the right thing. God forbid they lose their jobs.
I could go on, but what was no longer interests me.
I am thankful this Thanksgiving for what might be. I am thankful that I live in a country where anything is still possible. That we are limited only by our lack of ideas and the motivation to make them real. I am thankful that I live in a country where people are free to express their political views, however obtuse, and to gather and worship freely. I am most thankful for the promise of a future that can easily trump the problems of the present.
Our country is far from perfect, as has been demonstrated time and again. But I am thankful to live in this great land where opportunity is limitless and where we can dare to dream big dreams.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Nice thoughts here. Positive thoughts are flowing in your mind. Keep it up!