I guess I am always freaking out though, so maybe this isn't news to anyone else! I am seriously disturbed about the sudden amount of gov't bailouts for financial institutions...seriously disturbed. I think the last thing we need is to bail out all these banks. It is just putting off the inevitable in my opinion. The business cycle is cyclical *ahem*. So why not let it work?! You can't always be going up! There will be a point when the market will correct itself. Yes, there are many things that can be done to push it off into the future...but is that a good idea? Not in my opinion. In fact, I think it is probably the worst possible idea ever. Instead of letting the market correct itself, we push it off into the future, which means eventually when the market does correct itself it will be that much worse.
I know that I am always talking about getting goats, being self sufficient and having my entire family live together, but it seems to me that maybe I am not as far off as I thought I was. Of course the blogs I read are all blogs that people are preparing for the "collapse," so maybe I am only seeing what I choose to see. But, I think that where we are as a country right now, the state of our economy, well, we need to really prepare and be ready for what comes next.
I have been trying to prepare for the past year and a half now, but I am no where near as ready as I should be, or even need to be for that matter. But, we are getting there. We have our woodstove and a huge pile of wood in our yard (which I am concerned about people stealing, of course). I am preserving food, we have the pig coming in November, our summer CSA has another month to go, and then our winter CSA starts up.
There are major concerns. What happens if Matt loses his job? What if my mom can't work? My brother and his wife? It's a constant concern of mine. I know, worrying is a sin, and it's the sin that I have the hardest time not doing. Maybe I am not worrying as much as I think, maybe I actually am trying to prepare and be responsible just in case something happens. Or maybe I am making excuses for worrying :-)
I don't know what the future holds, no one does, but I just hope that I can prepare enough so that my family is safe and secure. That is the only thing that matters, that my family is safe.
PS I'm not always this much of a downer :-)
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of course you aren't. that's the part of the blog, you can write down the thoughts that you do have that are of concern or insightful. :-) i don't know that worrying is too wrong. you sound like your worry is productful in moving you into action and planning. but part of it is trust, that things will work out in one way or another. you're much more aware, based on your background, of the economic situation than a lot of people in America.
I posted on this subject not so long ago Heather, the post is titles "Take a breath"
Blessings:)
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