OK, my blog entries have been pretty frivolous the past couple of days. I'm going to blame it on the heat, because here in Southern CA it has been uncomfortably hot all week. I think global warming is working overtime here.
Aside from that, the things that are on my mind are the same things that a lot of people are thinking about: the upcoming election, the economy that is in the crapper right now, and the general state of our country.
As a teacher, you need to be able to save money, and the economic state of things is weighing on a lot of minds. People's houses are losing a lot of their value (thank goodness mine is hanging in there for now,) banks are cutting down on the available loans, and a lot of colleagues are talking about refinancing--and most of us have been living off of our savings for the past 3 months. It's scary. And, yes, so the Senate passed the tweaked version of the bill that is supposed to "help," but we all know where that $700 billion is going to come from. And we also know that whoever is elected is going to be handed a mop and a pail of dirty water to continue to clean up this mess. Yet in the end, all of us are going to be paying for a long time.
So those are the kinds of things that are on my mind these days. With the 100 degree heat today and the severely weakened economy, they are strong reminders of the kinds of environmental and financial issues our next generation is going to inherit one day. How sad. This country is circling the drain right now.
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