We Are Legend

The economy is performing better than expected. There will be no job growth, however. Stock markets can do quite well, thank you, without any jobs. In fact, stock markets react positively to jobs being cut, people thrown out of work, and shipping jobs overseas. My parents thought Rick Wagoner of GM got a raw deal. Then they read about how he wanted to outsource 100% of tooling overseas ( in Crain's Business ). They don't seem to get it that cable news wants knee-jerk reactions, not informed viewers. If the present trend continues, we are going to settle for illusions: the people at large will own the crappy assets, the people at large will go into year after year working at survival jobs, the people at large will watch the value of what they do have disappear. We are destroying the future to rescue the miserable lives of the people who run this country. The rest of us...? We are already as dead as walking zombies. We are legend. <<<>>> More than anything, we wish for continuity in our lives: a story of country, faith, and ourselves that begins in hope, stays on course although buffeted by storms, and eyes on the prize - the same prize we had when we were young and dreaming. That's what bothers me: I sense a sudden break in the continuity of our history. That story of being a Boomer born in WW II; American Graffitti 1950's; Kennedy and King 1960's - Hendrix, Beatles, and Vietnam; the end of the Cold War and how little we let it really change things...all leading to American prosperity and the times when we wrote ( as recently as last year) "the USA is the most powerful nation in the histroy of the world"...and then retirement and golf and Medicare. It ain't happening. There's a sudden gap in continuity coming. And it's going like Lord of the Flies.