As we embark on 2009, I think we can all agree that 2008 pretty much sucked and we're all glad to see it go! Oh yes, it started out well enough with the excitement of the 2008 presidential election and the prospect of either having our first female or African-American president. Then the proverbial shit hit the fan. The economy tanked and the greedy little tick that is corporate America and big government, finally sucked all they could suck from the American people and popped it's ugly little head, unfortunately bringing all of us down with them. It was official folks, the United States was in a recession...or were we? Well, at least that's what we were told. I don't know about everyone else but one thing about 2008 that really pissed me off was the control the mainstream media had over our lives. It pretty much controlled the presidential race with it's embarrassing love affair with Barack Obama and hatred of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin was a disgrace...now they were telling us we were in a recession, the worst since the great Depression, it was only going to get worst before it got better, blah, blah, blah. Well I for one am sick of it! My New Year's resolution for 2009 is to not listen to anymore news shows. I will limit myself to a healthy dose of news each day and get just what I need to know. I think the worst thing to ever happen to the USA was the conception of 24 hour news stations. Too much time to fill makes for a lot of useless and hateful information, most of it all hype. Good news just doesn't sell. Yes, we know Wall Street is a mess but what about Main Street? But what about the small business man & woman who make up about 90% of the work force in this country and who will take a pay cut personally before letting an employee go? Why don't we hear about them? The economic crisis is based on greed, pure & simple. They got greedy, they tanked and we paid for it. If IBM's profits fall for the quarter from 25 million to 20 million, it's seen as a financial disaster and the first to go is the labor force, not the CEO's making millions in salaries and bonuses every year. But what about the middle class taxpayer who's cost of living went up but not their paychecks? I guess what I'm trying to say is hang in there people... don't panic and we'll all be fine. We've been through this before and we can do it again. It's like the happy go lucky chubby kid who goes along, enjoying life until some mean kid informs him that he's actually "fat" and shatters his reality. Well, we're that fat kid people and the media is the mean bully just itching to shatter our reality for ratings, but don't you listen, we're are the strong ones, we are the survivors so let's just keep on doing what it is we as Americans do best, living, loving, laughing and spending!
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