I have read that as many as 8 out of 10 Americans are nervous and a bit afraid of the economic times we are in. I own a business and have 30 some people depending on my company to pay them. I don’t believe any of them feel like they are going to lose their jobs, still many of them are apprehensive of the future because of all the bad reports from the media.
Here is an example of the typical story that is reported everywhere!
"Economically difficult times are here. Worst economy since the depression.
Times are tough. We are now “officially” in a recession. A survey shows that more than 8 out of every 10 Americans are frightened about the state of the economy. Anxiety is at an all time high. You are probably suffering from the financial crises."
How’s that for a story to get your day started off right! Doesn’t that make you feel like going out and being productive? If you’re a salesperson, don’t that inspire you to go out and sell something today?? If you are a business owner, doesn’t that make you feel better about having gone in to business for yourself?
Newspapers, TV, and magazines are looking for a story to report. The worse the news is the more importance they seem put on it. The fact that they can report the coming gloom and doom, recession and depression, I believe makes them think they are doing us a great service by imparting all this important bad news to us.
They will report that an arsonist burned down a church building, but will never report that a group of people just built a new church building. Bad news sells. Good news does not.
The media will report that two guys raped a girl scout while she was out selling cookies. They would never report that my wife and I have been happily married for 29 years, that we give money to the boy scouts and girls scouts, or that we support a missionary in South America and that I help deliver free meals to poor people on Thanksgiving and Christmas, because that is not news. Millions of people in America are happily married, and do volunteer work, and help people, but that all goes unreported.
My Prediction
I predict in the coming year 2009 it will be about like it’s always been. Opportunity mixed with difficulty. Some will prosper others will go bankrupt. Some will lose jobs others will get new jobs. Some will get married, some will get a divorce. Bad crap will happen to some good people. Some evil people will commit murder and get away with it.
According to the "CIA Factbook," there are approximately 6,744 deaths in the USA every day. The Associated Press reports on July 18th 2008, that about 11,821 new babies are born every day in the land of the free and the home of the brave. It has always been like this. Warm soft breezes blow and Hurricanes come over the same ocean.
Shall all of America look to the government to bail them out? Heaven forbid. Not me. I say right with Teddy Roosevelt, “To whom much is given, much is expected!”
I am going to leave my cave, I’m going out and kill something, and drag it home, and my wife of 29 years is going to cook it, and we are going to sit down and give thanks to God for it, and eat it. And as Walter Cronkite always said, “And that’s they way it is; Good night.”
