Gramps
Mayor
If you said common folks would be affected by this catastropical event, you're right. If you said the wealthy will also be affected, you're right. If you think golden agers who rely on SS and Medicare to stay afloat, you're right again. If you even took under consideration that educational pursuits will be cripped to some degree, you've got the idea. If you envisioned some folks losing jobs, another un-huh for you.
And what does it all boil down to? Well, after the dust settles and adjustments are made it comes down to this -- the poor will still be poor, perhaps a tad poorer, the middle class will still be struggling to stay afloat and the rich will still be counting their money, vacationing in the Carribean or Vail, driving swanky cars that get ten miles to a gallon and dining on prime rib while less blessed countrymen gag down some Spam.
When WWII ended this nation went (in a relatively short time) from a wartime economy that kept everyone working (including 16 million in the military) to a peacetime recovery that had more dreads than a crocodile infested swamp AND they manged to overcome them even while footing the tab for a GI Bill that cost a ton of money to re-educated millions of vets whose pre-war talents weren't exactly something to write home about.
BUT, tomorrow has this in common with that era; it will be another Friday when the common man will again be called upon to stepup to the plate and deliver simply because without him it just couldn't be done. He'll comply, not because he wants to but because he has no other choice just like he's been doing since the dawn of time.
RELAX! It isn't the end of the world, just an end to what has been a different era and if you get lucky enough to live as long as I have you'll see lots of change. Adjustment is the key to survival in most things.
Oh, and about those fat cats who make the rules in our nation's capitol? They are probably the only thing that has not significantly changed over the years. Remember what HST called the group calling the shots immediately following WWII; the "no good 80th Congress". Gosh, I wonder what he'd call this bunch of goldbricks today.
Have a pleasant Friday and all of the subsequent days to follow. We will prevail.
Gramps
And what does it all boil down to? Well, after the dust settles and adjustments are made it comes down to this -- the poor will still be poor, perhaps a tad poorer, the middle class will still be struggling to stay afloat and the rich will still be counting their money, vacationing in the Carribean or Vail, driving swanky cars that get ten miles to a gallon and dining on prime rib while less blessed countrymen gag down some Spam.
When WWII ended this nation went (in a relatively short time) from a wartime economy that kept everyone working (including 16 million in the military) to a peacetime recovery that had more dreads than a crocodile infested swamp AND they manged to overcome them even while footing the tab for a GI Bill that cost a ton of money to re-educated millions of vets whose pre-war talents weren't exactly something to write home about.
BUT, tomorrow has this in common with that era; it will be another Friday when the common man will again be called upon to stepup to the plate and deliver simply because without him it just couldn't be done. He'll comply, not because he wants to but because he has no other choice just like he's been doing since the dawn of time.
RELAX! It isn't the end of the world, just an end to what has been a different era and if you get lucky enough to live as long as I have you'll see lots of change. Adjustment is the key to survival in most things.
Oh, and about those fat cats who make the rules in our nation's capitol? They are probably the only thing that has not significantly changed over the years. Remember what HST called the group calling the shots immediately following WWII; the "no good 80th Congress". Gosh, I wonder what he'd call this bunch of goldbricks today.
Have a pleasant Friday and all of the subsequent days to follow. We will prevail.
Gramps
