Looking within oneself

No, I’m not going to present a lot of introspection here, but I am going to suggest that if we hope to retain any optimism,we all have little choice but to look inside ourselves to find it. The world around us is in poor shape. The economy sucks, and it’s even worse in Europe. The U.S. political future is indeed dim. The thought of having a President McCain or a President Obama is nothing short of frightening. Both of them participated fully in the “financial bailout” that will cost us a trillion dollars and take a giant leap toward complete government control of the U.S. economy. Imagine the whole economy running like Amtrak or the Post Office, bearing in mind that most government endeavors don’t work as WELL as those two examples. They’re not proposing change, but still more of the same political interference that drug us into this mess.

Prepare for increased economic stagnation of the kind we watched in the Soviet Union. Government cannot positively control an economy. The best it can do is stay the hell out of the way and let the market do what it must. Any government tinkering can only make it worse, and it most certainly will.

So… look inside yourself for satisfaction and create your own feeling of stability and sanity… it ain’t gonna be evident around us.