I was thinking about the current situation in the United States – at war with a phantom enemy, a crumbling financial market, health care substandard, impoverished educational system, not to mention a whole host of other diseases such as dire poverty (as witnessed during Katrina). <\/p>\n
A friend pings me from Chicago and asks how I am doing in the midst of market tumult and I say, remarkably calm. I ping a colleague and ask he is doing and his company in the midst of chaos, and he says remarkably calm. <\/p>\n
There is a calm coming from the fact that no matter what the outcome of this “bail out” event is – the status quo no longer serves us. There will be regulations and caps on excessive and egregious lending and spending. No matter who wins the election (AND I PRAY IT IS OBAMA), Bush will be gone – a president who short sightedly sent us to war instead of fighting the battles at home. <\/p>\n
We are not going to take it anymore is what voters are saying – yes, it is eight long years late in coming, but better late than never. The silver lining to all of this – change is coming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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