I’m so tired of hearing about the recession. It’s all forecasts of doom and destruction these days on the tv and radio and I suppose that’s half of the problem. I understand that people should be informed, but perhaps people should also be intelligent enough not to panic when the media tells them something. It ends up in a frenzied circle of people wanting to know more about the horrible things and the media feeding more horrible things to them until everyone sits at home moaning about how everything is wretched and destroyed.

Don’t get me wrong – I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs and houses and I wish them all the best, but I don’t really care about the bankers and their bonuses or any of that crap. Maybe they do get too much money, but is it really necessary to pin the blame on someone foe this whole thing? Maybe we weren’t careful enough in our own finances. Maybe we were living beyond our means. Maybe we contributed half of the problem by not just carrying on as normal when the first reports came out instead of hiding our money in mattresses and counting pennies. I realize there are problems, but FUCK people, calm down! Maybe I have a weird stance on this stuff but I was poor before. I can honestly say that things really aren’t that different for us. In fact, we’re probably better off now than we were before. Maybe I’ve just simplified all of this and I don’t really understand things at all. That’s actually fairly likely to be the case, but maybe I’m a little bit right too.