The Reality Of Our Challenges
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
In my daily process of reading a variety of sources to try and find the most complete picture of what is taking place within a reasonable timeframe allotted for the research, I was struck today by the conflicting themes of this article that tried to highlight the positive advances of the economy – and this account which seems to offer a much more dire perspective. With a glass half-full optimism the article on the soaring unemployment rates also pushes “the best construction on everything envelop”, suggesting that it’s really a much more positive situation than the highest rate of joblessness we’ve seen. Buried down in the middle to near end of the account we see that the actual numbers should actually show a 16.8 percent unemployment rate.
Meanwhile, down on the farm things are also not going well. The hardships of American dairy and hog producers have been highlighted in this call for attention by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
While positive thinking is a worthy approach to confronting serious situations, there is also need to evaluate the circumstances with an eye of how to best effect a turn-around. If a good part of the downward fall is based on weakness that is burdened by government actions which seem intent on flushing free-market, Capitalism out of our economic system, maybe the first action should be a decision to stop digging the hole deeper…
In my daily process of reading a variety of sources to try and find the most complete picture of what is taking place within a reasonable timeframe allotted for the research, I was struck today by the conflicting themes of this article that tried to highlight the positive advances of the economy – and this account which seems to offer a much more dire perspective. With a glass half-full optimism the article on the soaring unemployment rates also pushes “the best construction on everything envelop”, suggesting that it’s really a much more positive situation than the highest rate of joblessness we’ve seen. Buried down in the middle to near end of the account we see that the actual numbers should actually show a 16.8 percent unemployment rate.
Meanwhile, down on the farm things are also not going well. The hardships of American dairy and hog producers have been highlighted in this call for attention by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
While positive thinking is a worthy approach to confronting serious situations, there is also need to evaluate the circumstances with an eye of how to best effect a turn-around. If a good part of the downward fall is based on weakness that is burdened by government actions which seem intent on flushing free-market, Capitalism out of our economic system, maybe the first action should be a decision to stop digging the hole deeper…
Posted by Doug Busselman at 9/4/2009 2:00 PM 
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Government Spending
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Government Spending
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