What If They Gave A Recession, And Nobody Came?

Even though I've understood the concept for my entire life, I have gained a new appreciation for the fact that dogs can smell fear, and they do not like it. Maybe I'm part dog. All I can tell you is that on May 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM Pacific Time, I am officially declaring myself to be sick of fear.

I am:

1). Sick of reading stories on the Web about our elected officials "seeing a light at the end of the tunnel" and brighter days ahead, immediately followed by stories from "experts" and "pundits" stating that the "recovery," if any, will be "minimal" and "less than expected." No one knows. I don't know, you don't know, and the "experts" just like seeing their faces on TV and their names in print.

2). Sick of business owners who are afraid, because the TV and the Web and the Newspapers (if there are any left) have told them to be afraid, and have decided that the best strategy for surviving the Recession is to pull their head, arms and legs into their shell like a turtle. Do you know what a large animal, such as a bear, does when they are hungry and they come across a turtle that has pulled itself into its shell? If their jaws are powerful enough, they bite right through the shell. If not, they pick it up with their teeth and hurl it against a rock to split the shell. Either way, soup's on, and today's special is turtle. And as long as the small business owners remain in fear, there will be no "light at the end of the tunnel." If you think that Wall Street investors are going to save the average working man and woman's hide, think again.

3). Sick of people making money from the weakness of others who lack confidence and determination and the sheer guts required to overcome one's obstacles in life. Sick of every book, CD, DVD, MP3, Webinar, Seminar, Teleconference, Networking Event, Podcast, Blog Post, Twitter Tweet and Guest Speaker that exists for the sole purpose of lining some weasel's pockets with the money of people who don't feel good about themselves and want to take a shortcut, like listening to a CD and going right back to what they were doing before they listened to it and waiting for some kind of ridiculous "Law of Attraction" to "manifest" itself in their lives as the result of them doing nothing other than "visualizing" what they "desire" with "powerful emotion" and "waiting expectantly" for it. Sick of predators, sick of parasites, and sick of the people who are too weak or naive to identify them in the first place.

What If They Gave A Recession, And Nobody Came?