04/21/08 Life is Grand

The cost of food has skyrocketed, gasoline is liquid gold and house values have gone to heck in a hand basket. We have it really bad, right? Our ancestors would probably say, "Shame on you"! And I'm not even talking about those robust and determined pioneers who struggled their way across this nation to make a new life for their families; how about those here in America that suffered through the total collapse of Wall Street and the Depression era just a scant seventy to eighty years ago. Ask a few of them. They could tell us what real hardship is all about. Most of us, no matter how tight things may get, will still have a roof over our heads and food to eat. We may struggle through foreclosures but will still land in rental housing. We may have to eliminate a few luxuries, like our daily triple shot espressos, or 300 channel cable packages; and we'll have to get creative with the grocery budget, but we will be okay. And in the long run probably stronger and better for it. Life is still grand.