Today's blog entry is a message to struggling Americans who are wondering how they'll make ends meet, and why the travails of Alex Rodriguez seems so much more important than their livelihoods. Take heart, America. Some people do, in fact, get it.
With all the arguments over the stimulus plan, where the other half of the TARP money will go and with how much oversight, it seems easy to overlook what it feels like to have spent your life working and through no fault of your own, suddenly to be thrown out of a job.
That gnawing feeling in your gut that no medicine can cure comes and goes. You look in the eyes of your children and realize your teachings about the value of hard work are suddenly suspect.
The phone calls from bill collectors come, and you find yourself walking around the house, trying to figure out if there's something you're doing wrong.
The phone calls from bill collectors come, and you find yourself walking around the house, trying to figure out if there's something you're doing wrong.
Why haven't there been more responses to your resume? How will next month's mortgage be paid? Will you have to skimp on needed medication in order to pay your utility bill? Will all the stuff politicians argue about really make a difference?
In these times of economic crisis, it's hard to find reasons to take heart. But understand this.Your economic survival is just as important as that of an investment banker, a hedge fund manager, and yes, even some media pundit. Those folks think they live in a different world than you. They're wrong.
You can find some comfort in the notion that we have a person in the White House who at least understands that a 15% unemployment rate in any American city is a problem for all America. He's promised transparency in the way stimulus money is spent. The nation needs to hold him to it as we believe he means it.
What is important? No, it's not A-Rod, Chris Brown, Rihanna, John Boehner or John McCain.
It's you. Tell me your story...post it here so we can learn from each other?
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