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Today's Requiem

Don't jump out of your window.

The nation's economic policy is about to take you for a ride. The next several months or years will task you to make personal decisions.

The answer is simple "" ECONOMIZE.

It's time to do things that seem to have no effect, but mount into a sizeable one. Old ideas work. From victory gardens, to car pools; from wearing your coat another fashion year, to making one more year out of your car; from tune ups, to do it yourself home improvements; all such actions make a dent in your new survival plan.

The kids will prosper from your demonstration of how to get more mileage out of your life as well as your gas tank.

Family unions and bonds will be tested; and almost always strengthened as a result of it.

This time can and should be the seedbed for new and better ideas; marketable products and solutions will be born here.

Jobs will be created.

Tough market clouds are always seeded with opportunity and gold.

I am a child of depression era parents who ended up hoeing cotton to survive the depression. Dad drove a school bus to make extra money and worked at a general store in between. Mother raised chickens and sold eggs and milk "" and that was before they had a milking machine, electricity or indoor plumbing. They lived in a "dugout"- which is nothing more than a hole in the ground with a lean to roof and front.

This now illustrates the stupidity of the Bush policy.

The understanding that this administration has evidenced about the nation's economy says that CONSUMER SPENDING drives this economy.

But the World Wide economists side with common sense. Individuals will have to develop their own "-policy' to get through a recession when they begin it with maxed out credit cards; first, second and third mortgages on homes; seven year car payments and inflated costs of gasoline and food.

The only solutions for individuals and families is to economize "" which means cutting back, not spending.

From the individual point of view, they are torn between knowing that the stimulus won't work and needing and wanting the extra $4-500 that will ultimately come down the pipeline (even though promised as $800 to $1600).

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