In This Economy

Our economy has been spiraling for a few years now. I guess 2008 is when people really decided to start taking notice... You know, when their husbands lost their job or when the "adjustable" on their rate took effect.

We hear recession talk from officials. Things about how we haven't seen an economy this bad in twenty years. ...Then there's the analysts out there who make money off people's last threads of hope. Telling stories about how and when the market will recover, basing their facts on the tendencies of past economic movement. Yet, not one of their theories line up.

People's minds are made up and fingers adamantly pointed at what they believe the cause of this decline to be: George or Wall Street or the greed of the mortgage industry. Because their personal decline certainly couldn't be chalked up to their zeroed out credit cards or the shiny new cars sitting in their driveways bought solely on credit. It's not their lack of savings or retirement plans, or (gasp) their own greed.

I can't have a conversation today about anything without the terms "in this economy" sneaking their ugly way in. And maybe it's because I started a new job a month back, and Matt's starting his new job at the end of the month. Maybe it's because all we hear about on the news, you know, in between the violence-driven stories, is about how much less your house is worth that day or how worried we should be about a collapse.

But these words are now cringe-worthy. They've worn out their welcome. I'm tired of all the bitching and complaining in this economy.