I’ve been reading that the recession is over and that many businesses are headed in the right direction again. But, from other sources, I see unemployment is still high, consumers are holding back on purchases, businesses are keeping capital expenses at minimums and economists are concerned for the future. What gives? Are things better or not? Well, I’ve decided that we are in new type of economic climate, best described like a weather report. Scattered thundershowers are in the forecast. Some pockets are getting rained on and some are looking at nothing but blue skies.
That’s great if you’re one of the lucky ones that are doing well, but what are the others to do; head to the park and pretend everything is great, play a little Frisbee, walk the dog! I don’t think so.
We need to begin to look at how to approach a new economy that will provide jobs and income to those who want to work. It’s obvious to many that it will be a long time ,if ever, before we regain the type of expanding economy that drove wealth in the post war (WWII) period through ’90s. We are in need of new driving forces. The auto, housing, technology, durable goods markets are changed forever. They have been either exported or saturated.
What do we do next? We look for leaders that inspire. Not the run-of-the-mill types that are so wound up in their own agendas that they can’t look for the greater good, but those that understand we can’t look back or hope that we can just wait it out.
I hope we have some people like that… we need ’em now. I’m tired of just taking a walk around the park over and over again.
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