My Apologies

I would like to apologize.

After this week's elections, with "historic" results, I'm obviously supposed to be in a better mood, look to the future of this country with a more positive view.

I've tried. It's not working so well.

We're still in a hole and going deeper. I wanted a landslide, winners so emboldened they would immediately begin sounding the emergency horn, current office holders now convinced of our problems, called to action.

Maybe I'm wrong. But maybe I'm right. If we are moving in the right direction, we are not moving nearly fast enough.



I still can't help but see Thelma & Louise hitting the gas and going over the side, flying high above the canyon until, well, until they started plummeting downward. You could have placed a few stop signs for T & L to stop at on the way to the edge, but they still went over. I can't help but feel like we're all still in that convertible, screaming to the edge.



Mitch McConnell's words this week helped. I even liked John Boehner's speech, his crying episode, as I took it to mean he's serious, understands the weight of our times and truly appreciates the country we are losing. I've read and heard other good comments. There, and then not there, as so many simply seem NOT to get it.

We still face debt we can't individually imagine, piling on more. We have a growing number of homeowners in this country who are choosing to cease paying their mortgages because either others they know have stopped are still living in their homes, and / or because they believe the government will come to their aid if they join the distressed masses. Not paying, I've read in a number of accounts, gives them an increased amount of spending money. I've read some amazing examples of this. Yet, it sets off a whole new wave of dominoes, more and more uncontrollable, never-ending.

All of this, for anyone paying attention, with even a slight grasp of what is going on, creates more unease, more concern for where we are going. The problems may not have happened overnight, but many of the solutions now, I believe, must be implemented overnight, or at least now reasonably discussed and planned for.

But they are not. We are supposed to pretend, listen to a media which is pretending, misleading, none of it is there. All is fine.

I'm supposed to feel better, be ecstatic, I guess. I am not.

My apologies.