In a message dated 4/18/05 11:03:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It won't be great but it won't be terrible.
Money wise, the overall future looks bleak to me, for alot of us.
Gas prices are going to continue to kill us. And I don't see government
circumventing the impending disaster coming ahead, Chicken Little.
Frankly, I don't know who these people are who can afford $400,000 condo's on
Lake Calhoun. It ain't me and it never will be.
Those of us of the baby boomers, who had parents that went through the Great
Depression and saw them make use of every damn little thing, never throwing
out any kind of food, and saying to ourselves "we won't live like that"....may
just have to do just that in the end. That is, learning to simplify and make
do with less than before. Just so we can pay for increasing prices on food and
gas and health care. It means maybe living with VHS and never upgrading to DV
D. Once, in 1978, I bought a brand new car, right off the lot. I doubt I
will ever do that in my life again. Making do with second hand cars is what
I'm
about these days.
I compare what I pay for gasoline today to 20 years ago. And what I paid for
Health Care 20 years ago (which was zilch practically) to today. I mean,
both my boys were born "free". I make more dollars per hour today than ever,
but
my buying power was greater 20 years ago. I did much better then. And it
ain't reverting backwards. I don't think so.
Perhaps it is meant to be? History's lesson to us being a humbling one.
That maybe, like all great societies, we were given it all and somehow, we
still
weren't happy with it. Always wanting more. We became blind to the fact that
there was no true assurance of it staying around.
I take for granted the water out of my faucet is clean and drinkable. I
expect it to stay that way.
The paper today said almost 11 million children from birth to age 5 die each
year in third world countries. 11 million. And I am immuned to that. I
can't fathom that figure to make real. And...those deaths are preventable.
Innocent sufferings.
I should be grateful that my life is better than that. But their world is
somewhere over there away and doesn't affect my immediate. I'm more concerned
about where to find gas for $1.99 when it's been $2.35. And envy those who can
live in walking distance to Calhoun Square.
Myke P. Golben
Battle Creek
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