Lately its been really hard not to realize that  we are indeed in the Great Depression of our Era.  With the USA on the brink of bankruptcy, what does that leave for the rest of us?  Raising the debt ceiling just delays the inevitable.. and someday this financial mess the entire world is in is going to have to be dealt with.  We don't produce much in this country any more.  What we do produce is so expensive or so highly regulated or taxed that nobody can make a profit.
   
    Being an artist has it's benefits. During hard times we have the ability to create things that make people realize there is still beauty and peace in the world amongst the chaos.  As small as it may seem, the brief moment it takes to stop and gaze at a beautiful painting, work of art, or listen to a great play or see a great film or theater production temporarily takes us away from all the despair going on in the world these days.
  
There is so much wrong with the way things are going right now in politics and the world economy.  There has to be a way to use creativity and foresight to find a way through this.  We are too smart and too great a nation to let this bad governing and bad decisions of late ruin our futures and our children's futures.   When people have worked their entire lives  to build a secure future and then all of a sudden have nothing to show for it.. losing savings, house value, every financial security for so many ..  creating such great stress, loss, and dispair, something is very very wrong. 
   
    We need good leadership again, we need innovation, we need to solve this problem instead of making it worse every single day.  We are failing and are falling.. and falling very hard.. history books are being written in our own lives right now.  That's a fact.

    Throughout history when people have lost everything and are fighting to feed their families and be able to work to provide for themselves revolutions have occurred.  I think we are on the cusp of such a time.  People are not just going to sit by forever and let these fools in Washington ruin our future forever.  Something drastic needs to happen to change the course of history.  Eventually it will happen.  I just hope it isn't too late before a real disaster presents itself and we aren't able to handle it.

Just my vent on what seems to be a very very difficult time right now. I have gone through great loss myself because of this mess and I am ready for things to turn around. Each brush stroke takes me there.. and each step I take is hopefully toward a brighter future.  I just hope the same is true for the USA... and all of my friends around the world.

One thing I wonder.. what would happen if all the lazy slackers in the USA would get off their rear ends and work .. and stop costing us  taxpayers, hard workng people our own money.  What would happen if all the folks.. generations of people on the "system" actually got up and worked, and worked together to make things in this country if we could actually recover from this depression we are in?  

One thing that really bugs me is people that milk the system.. so they  don't have to work. In a time where we are in a real depression, people are losing homes, well being, and jobs every day, and there are still people milking our broke system of every dime.   It's time to stop that.  Make them contribute .. if they are able to work.Why can't we make our own jobs, create new things, new ideas.. not depending on someone else all the time?   Why is it that 3rd world countries, with a different work ethic.. make everything we use?  Why can't we figure a way to do it and get ourselves out of this mess?   

We are all sitting around waiting for Obama or a state governor to fix everything for us.  That is the problem. Why can't we all as a nation figure out together how to get out of this mess?  With the way we can create, innovate, and technologically produce such amazing products.. why can't we fix our current economy?  Where are the ideas?

We need jobs. so let's create them..    We need to make things, create things, come up with new ideas, instead of waiting for someone else to fix the problem.   We need to do things smart.. and win this thing because we all still have to live here.. and make the best of it.

Ok ... off my soap box ..  I'm just sayin...