I get awfully tired of hearing about the looming recession on the radio, watching tv news and reading the papers. So many words! Yet, with all the commentary on the credit crunch, the recession, a depression and economic mayhem, everyone is so busy attributing blame, finding reasons and excuses with the perfect vision of 20/20 hindsight, you have to wonder about our vision of the future. Is anybody looking forward and planning how to avoid this in the future? Doubtful!
Who cares whose fault it all is? Why do we have to spend so much time finger-pointing, blaming and picking history to pieces? None of it will teach us anything to prepare us for the next time round. It's so easy to destroy politicians after the fact (makes you worry for Barack in times to come). Lest we forget, we are the ones who had them elected, after all.
And we can bitch and moan about bankers, greedy capitalists and corrupt fraudsters like Madoff, but it was our own self-interest; our own consumerist hunger for more of everything material that made them, wasn't it?
We need to get over our little selves; our ego-driven arrogance, and celebrate the tightening of the belt.
It can only do us good to lose a little of the fat ...
... in every sense of the word.
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