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As I write this, the second Presidential Debate is pending. Many people are looking forward to this event because they want to know where the candidates stand on the important issues. Others are hoping that the candidate they back does something dramatic to “win” the debate. How important is all of this?
Actually, like many of the big shows in our culture, it’s not very important at all.
The economic crisis is certainly taking its toll on families and the relationships that they are built on. A strong family requires a stable income and the things it provides, such as a consistent house and a balanced meal. What a family also requires, however, is great heaps of old fashioned quantity time spent together. The world that many middle class people live in, even those with reliable jobs, often puts these two directly at odds with each other.
Today’s post is a repeat from my earlier blog, “Columbus Day Riot”, first posted in 1999. Since I recently commented on how so many things have gotten screwed up in the last 10 years, I thought it would be fun to remember the old daze – when the National Debt was about half what it will be shortly and our biggest concern was how to pay it off. What could have been different? If we had followed my adivce and given Texas back to Mexico we wouldn’t even have a President from that former state, for example.
As the sun moves past the Equinox into autumn, the days are shorter and colder. Clouds threaten rain all day, but the water of life only falls in dribbles. This is the spooky season, the time of year when we all know what is coming. All we can do is prepare for it.
This year, we’ve had more than the prediction of weather to worry about. The social world of politics and money has also turned dark, if far less predictable.
There are so many things in the nooze lately that seem terribly important. The election has taken a back seat to financial matters, at least now that the world has caught up to what many of us have seen coming for a year or more. We passed the anniversary of 9/11 without much sign of an end in Iraq or progress in Afghanistan. What is an informed, intelligent person to make of this whirl of current events?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
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