Blog #6, Superhero

Who ever can make this economy go up will be my hero. My main concern is the economy. I do care for the health care and all the other things but I think the economy is really important now. I don't trust any of them because they can "say" what they're going to do now but will they actually do it when they're President? How soon will they be able to perform what they said? Wouldn't it be so bad if the person you voted into office doesn't do what he promised? That would suck! Let's hope that won't happen. =P

As a college student, the economy is the most important thing for me. Everything that deals with money revolves around the economy and everything in school and life in general revolves around money. Money is always a problem to 99.9999% of the people. With the economy being so bad, colleges don't want to give out money, prices for supplies goes up, budget cuts, and everything else. I recently hear that because of the budget cut in schools, teachers are offering extra credit for students to bring in napkin, antibacterial hand sanitizer, paper, and other supplies. Well, what if a student just can't spend that extra $5 on those things? He/She won't be able to get extra credit. I think that's sad. It's like..paying your way through school. I'm exaggerating but it seems that way. A co-worker of mine also told me that in one elementary school, they have a program called "Adopt a classroom", where parents can adopt a classroom and buy supplies for them. On top of the parents buying pencils, pens, books, paper, binders, book bags, etc for their kids, they have to buy for the whole class! They don't have to, but those who volunteered will, but still, that's a lot of money. And why do they have to look to parents to help? The economy sucks. Banks are closing, people losing their money, stock market crashing, people without jobs, etc etc. It's just so sad. =(

My boss is in such a big debt with his place, I wish I can just donate him some money so the poor man can feel relieved just for a little bit. The shop is not making enough money for him to keep up the rent, his own living expenses and all that. I RARELY see him eating lunch. He's usually at the store from 10AM-8PM and I only see him eating COOKIES!! How can you survive on that. He said, "I have no money to eat" in a humors voice but I seriously think he has no extra money to spend for food. I can go on and on on this poor guy but it's just too much. He would of been more relieved a few years ago. See, he bought this store from his niece, who moved up north and opened another shop. He had a partner but he died the year when they took it over. Now his income just split in half. He doesn't have the other guy to help out. With everyone so tight on money, no one wants to come out and spend money in jewelry and stuff. Business dropped like crazy at the shop. I hate learning about the economy and stuff, just not my type, but being at the shop, I can literally SEE the downfall. A year ago, I just started working and everyday was busy and now, we have about 3 customers a DAY!

If the economy goes up, life would be just a "tab" it easier. It'll take time for everything to be what we hope for but if the one in office next year can make that happen, HE is my hero. I'm leaning towards OBAMA but if for some reason, McCain wins and makes the economy rise, then he will be my hero. I like Obama more because he focuses on all the needy stuff for the middle and lower class people more than McCain. I don't think the rich has anything to complain about seeing that there are people on streets begging for food, and kids sick and their parents have no money to take them to a doctor. The rich probably have a private doctor on call 24-7! I'm exaggerating again but it might be true.

As my boyfriend's dad said, "My the best man win!"

Blog Post #6, Zeitgeist

Our society is frustrated I think. Off course, the economy sucks, money is going somewhere that we don't want it to go, and what not. I don't think we have any happy spirit lately. Well maybe one, the gas price is falling, finally, but you only save about $2 on a fill up but eh. I sometimes do wake up and think why the economy is like this, what can I do to help, but I don't care much but to think. There's nothing I can do to help. Well there is but that probably out of my reach. I worry about what if everything just went downhill. I know that the economy sucks right now and it's hurting everyone. My family owns a business and my parents don't want to make me worry but I know that business is not so good. It's enough to get by and make something but last month, it was so bad that our sales dropped $20,000! That's like...my car!! I felt bad so then I started to save and try not to ask for money. It just worries me that what if one day they have to close it? What will we do? My parents ONLY know how to run a business, a restaurant specifically. I'm hoping that it won't happen.

I think the only thing that is so bad right now is just the economy. I don't think it's one person's fault and I don't think it's necessary Bush's fault, not that I'm defending him or anything. I think he took office at the worst timing possible. 9-11 didn't happen because of him, I think they were set on when, where, and why they were going to attack. It just happens to be that Bush is the president and he had to make a decision. It's either war or not. I'm against the war but it's already happened and we can't turn back now, but we do have to fix it and end it. It's just costing us too much money and resources. If it wasn't for 9-11, things wouldn't be this way. DUH! wow, I'm just like..confusing myself now. Anyhow, I don't know what my point is here. I mean, the economy didn't go downhill overnight. It took awhile but no one wanted to do anything about it beforehand therefore it sucks now. I'm not a big political person so I can't really justify all my reasoning and "theories" and I could be totally off on why the economy sucks, but that's what I think.

This post ties into the new essay I can tell. Not everything is what you see. It's so true! "You can't judge a book by its cover" I think that quote fits perfectly into this. There is no such thing as "love at first sight" How can you KNOW that you love someone by just looking at them? Impossible. You might feel like that person is cute and want to get to know them but please, it's not love until you know the person inside and out. It's 12:22AM and I really don't know if I'm making my point.

In case you didn't have time to look at my site, I make jewelry. I'll be having a craft show soon, you should come and check it out. =D