Economic Empty are you?
One Third of the Nation- National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects Administration
Are you eating out less frequently? Purchasing less food? Purchasing less gasoline? Purchasing less essentials? Skipping your meals and feeding your children first? Paying the bills on-time. Walking or biking everywhere? Hyper-miling? Turning your lights off and renting less videos?
Can we blame the government for the economic downturn? The Wall Street? The rich? Or the dreams of the people who would like more? Please do not get me into the socialistic system, because no systems runs like an assembly lines.
All these questions sound so sad, are they? Are we heading to the point that we are going to go back to the 1930s? Or when the days that our forefathers went through? I do not say I have solutions to global economic problems. I only see that no one policy(s) will fit all our increasingly integrated global economy that is also increasingly more complex. Our economic downtown can only be solved with groups of folks that are willing to get together. We should understand that getting together does not necessary harm our local way economies or jobs or well being.
In past history, trades from ships and horse-back were the only ways to get us to get some of the products we needed and we seems to forget that growth is part of progress and change to perhaps better change.
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.” ~John Berger
