If you have any boot straps, pull them up now.

Folks, we’re going to have to suck it in and hang in for the long haul.  At the moment there is no magic bullet or quick cure.  And I’m talking about the current condition of the economy.  As you may or may not know the national economy is in a big pickle.  Down in a deep hole and having a horrendous struggle getting out. 

And the reason I’m bring this to your attention is, the president is having a tough time fixing this problem.  All the while he has relentless critics from the left and the right.   Not to mention the harangue from the media and talk radio.  Most of which is not at all easing our current financial dilemma.  More like intensifying an already bad situation.  So, ease off please.

How is it we have become to expect such immediate results.  It took us more than eight years to get to this horrific place and it will take as many to get back.  Back to where we once belong, Jojo(see Beatles song book for clarification). 

My guess, based on advanced years of walking the planet, it will take a while to return to a robust economy.  Most likely an economy base on new ideas and technology.  An economy requiring re-education and learning new skills.  The high paying assembling jobs are gone along with our current expectations of returning to an old manufacturing and export model.  However, we possibly could get back to some degree of a robust economy but it would need to be based on building and using  new technology and using less carbon based energy.  Most likely using less labor at the outset.

Right now, many people and companies are setting on their cash.  Not willing to spend and I am afraid it will be that way for a long while.  Most from fear of the recent economy nose-dive.  Consumerism will possibly never recover to the pre-nine/eleven levels.  So, tighten your belt, it going to be a long ride.

Learn to grow your own food.  Help a neighbor in financial trouble.  Walk more and drive less.  Carpool.  Take a bus.  Use less water.  Turn off the lights in the house.  Eat less food.  Cook at home more often.  Turn up the air conditioning.  Wear shorts in the summer. 

There is nothing in the Constitution that guaranteed us absolute affluence.  As some of us have already found out, it will take an occasional bighting the bullet.  Take your punches and move on.  There will be Falling down and then we get up again.  It will certainly be a struggle but with less complaint and more “get on with it” American spirit, we can get pass this bump in the road.  Please, let’s work together.  It will make it easier on all of us including the Prez.