Short memory? Here's a kindly reminder.

Friendly Reminder:

Dear Reader:

Every so often we must remind ourselves how we got here. Meaning how we got to this depressed and wrecked national economy. High unemployment, foreclosures, and some of us homeless. How did this happen? Who did this?

Well, it wasn’t you. It wasn’t me. No. You and I didn’t do this. So, who and how?

As mentioned many many times before, it all occurred after 9/11. It was a combo of lost tax revenue, lost consumerism, two huge costly unfunded wars, irresponsible mortgage lending, feverish buildings of mega homes, and more tax cuts for the rich. Not to mention bailouts for “Too big to fill” banks and insurance companies. All contributing to a busted economy. Do you remember now?

And to remind you in case you had forgotten, most of which started under the control of the Bush administration. Did you forget? It’s true. We all can’t deny it.

And now, with a congress controlled by the same party that G W Bush headed, wants to do more of the same. Is this what we want to happen? It’s what we will get if the Republicans take control of the Whitehouse. Pretty scary huh?

So, I say this in order to learn from past mistakes. We must learn from our past history. To ignore history is to proceed blindly down a dangerous road. We must open our eyes and drive carefully. Happy motoring.

Do we not learn anything from history? Oh yeah. It repeats.

History lesson.  Herbert Hoover’s “Katrina” was the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s.  A horrific movement of dirt and dust carried by relentless winds.  Huge clouds of topsoil blowing over Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and further east.  Millions of tons of dirt blew up from the southern Plaines and carried as far away as New York.

It was called the Black Blizzard of the 1930s.  Often called a “Duster” by the poor folks living in the panhandle of Oklahoma.  Millions of acres cleared off of its prairie grass and left barren.  All because cattle ranchers and wheat farmers didn’t know about proper usage of the land.  Herbert Hoover had no agricultural policy.  There was too much money to make growing wheat and selling cattle.  So, strip the land and use it for all it’s worth.

Then came the crash of Wall Street in 1929.  No one had enough money to buy wheat or beef.  So, millions of acres then lay barren with no place to go.

Soon the winds picked up and then carried the topsoil hundreds of miles into near by states.  The drought came and the rain went away.  Dust blasted the prairie houses and killed the cattle.  And so, it went on and on.  Relentless and most menacing

Mostly because Herbert Hoover took his eyes off the heart land and was only focused on money and big banking.  Certainly a story of misfortune.  However, a story not to far from our present day difficulties.

People out of work.  Businesses shut down.  Land and water resources misused.  Hunger.  Poverty.  School closing.  Law enforcement lay off.  Just general despair and hopelessness.

Sound familiar?  Do we not learn anything from history?  Does anybody even read history any more?  Almost everything that has plagued us recently, has happened many times in one form or another in the past.  When will we ever learn?  The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.