The Truth Behind the Race for Approval: A Deeper Look at the Jobs Crisis
August 9th 2009 14:28
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
~ Buddha
~ Buddha
In an age of reality TV and quick assurances of approval or disapproval it’s become far too easy for us to lose sight of the end game.
The end game that equates American anger and pain with the achievement of goals that reach beyond finger pointing and popping open champagne bottles from partial pieces of information that tell us everything is going to be OK.
Partial pieces of information that serve as a pat on the head to the American public to assure them that the economy is getting better because of the points scored from the current administration instead of digging deeper behind the numbers.
The numbers that give us a dark reality of a system built to support the unemployed on a temporary basis and doesn’t keep track of the people who fall off the radar or have stopped looking for work that is unavailable.
People who can no longer support the economy, their community or their families when the government assistance runs out...
The realities of the situation in this country and the world is that we’ve dug ourselves into a hole that is bigger than any door to door survey or unemployment report to make the American people feel cozy with the situation.
The time has come for us to understand the realities on the street corners, in the boarded up businesses, at the struggling mom and pop restaurants, in the faces of the new homeless population and with the hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes in a realization that we have reached the bottom but are nowhere near the finish line.
The finish line that has Americans going back to work and fueling the infrastructure…
To reach this destination we have to find a point of understanding the delicate balance in front of our faces.
The delicate balance that has a strong focus on getting struggling Americans back to work and supporting companies with enough of a structured nudge to help them regain the stability to begin re-building the American workforce.
Fixing the mess we’re in does not nor will it ever involve invoking what we think may or may not have caused the implosion that brought suffering to the American people.
Fixing the mess we’re in will require open minds from sea to shining sea with the strong focus of achieving action instead of stirring up the blind sided friction that is stifling progress.
Progress that is measured by success and not a liberal or conservative agenda…
Everybody in the conversation has a strong understanding of where the problem is and the direct approach it will take to truly fix it but our government powers are too busy playing the age old games of I’m right and you’re wrong to see the forest from the trees.
The forest that supplies us with superficial numbers to blind the people into believing Americans are working again when reality tells us that the true unemployment numbers are bigger than any spendulous package past, present or future.
To come face to face with reality is a powerful task for any human being to undertake because it requires leaving behind every antiquated notion we were told to believe from a society of extremes.
The time for American citizens to reach this place is now because our country has reached a desperate point in our history but still insists on running blind.
Running blind in fields of blue and red instead of coming together in the creation of new ideas of how to truly dig deeper in understanding the devastation this epidemic has caused across our nation and the world.
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