Every night at Firehouse Subs (my place of employment) FOX news is always playing. Every time I pause, when there are no customers, to relax, I'm disturbed by the blaring arguments and opinions of the anchors and their guests.
In one moment, they're discussing the lack off business ethic's in the banking industry and Wall Street, the next about the stimulus plan, and then moments later about the indictment of Bernard Madoff (a crooked broker). I sit at home sometimes and I simply just don't know what to make of the situation.
This blog isn't at all about my opinions of the government, our President, or our economic state (although if you asked me in private I would share that with you, but I've learned that the key to a good blog is to leave those things out, I'm a blogger, not a journalist folks). But I would be lying if I said that I wasn't concerned and didn't think we should worry or take interest in what's happening because we should. I grew up in a home where we prayed for our country and its leaders daily, checking our opinions of them at the door when it came to our concern for their behalf in front of God... I think if you guessed where I stood politically and cultural assertively, you would guess that I was a strong Conservative. And if you guessed that I was a strong conservative, you would then venture to assume how I felt about the party platform of our President, what I thought about the loss of a capital economy to a social economy, or what I think we should do with corrupt bankers and brokers. But this isn't about my opinion of President Obama, his stimulus plan, AIG, Bernie Madoff, The mortgage crisis, or any of those issues, this is about AWARENESS. We as Americans have a responsibility to hold our leaders, whether elected in Government or appointed in private, accountable. Perhaps you say what I feel as well, and that's this "After this exhausting election and the recession we're in, and the unemployment rate going thru the roof at 8.5%, the last thing I want to do is turn on the news or pickup a newspaper."
I don't think awareness is a big deal right now with the media harvesting out the truth of the situations at hand, but what about five years from now? Ten years from now?... When all is well and our economy is strong and thriving again, the only way to keep it that way is for us to be interested and concerned to make sure that this chaos doesn't happen again.
We live in a great country, I would venture to say the greatest country in the world. American's never-cease to make global history and to recreate valuable thoughts and strategies for modern day living. But let us never forget that while we are a great country, that we still have God to answer to. And that each day we grow confident in our ability to sustain ourselves, we sail off the coast of dependency on God. Is this chaos God's judgment?? Okay, I share that opinion of mine: It could be, but I don't think it is... I think its simply the result of a humane world where faith and trust were put into human hands, and human-beings as imperfect as we are, grow arrogant in our ability to direct our own capital and the capital of others.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't trade being an American for anything, I love my country, and I'm blessed to drive down the city streets every day and lookout to see those stars and stripes billowing so beautifully in the breeze...
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