Monday morning quarterbacking
November 10, 2008 – 10:57 am
Denial is our weakest link
It’s Monday morning. That means it’s time for hindsight quarterbacking. Turn on any channel and chances are you are going to witness analysts attempting to make sense of what has already happened. In my inbox this morning I read no less than twelve different blogs on the economy.
Each had a different spin but all were of the same general opinion. We are heading into a economic depression. Despite the patches that our government is attempting to use to hold our economy together, there are too many factors in need of assistance to patch them all. Something has to give. Don’t get me wrong. I want the government to do something to help but I also realize that it wasn’t just the government that got us into this mess. It’s our greedy addiction to debt-spending coupled with our Pollyanna attitude that someone will always be there to bail us out.
When things go wrong it is our natural inclination to want to blame someone else but a truly evolved person must ask themselves the inevitable question. What part did I play in all of this?
Oddly enough, you will never hear this question on television. Ratings would plummet and the fear is that people would turn elsewhere for their daily dose of propaganda. But in my house, we speak the truth, even if it doesn’t feel good. Because we speak the truth, we don’t spend what we don’t earn or borrow what we cannot repay. I am not embarrassed to tell someone I cannot afford something. I only wish Washington and the talking heads would do the same.
