Now is the time ...

for all good men ...

Remember that phrase from typing class? It sounded kind of goofy way back then, but now it's a reality.

So much going on. War. Unemployment. Health care. Transportation. Recession. Depression. High fuel costs. How can we stand it?

Well, folks, that answer is simple. We stand it because we have to. We are too pampered in many ways. Reminiscent of a spoiled child. But we have no intention of "lowering our standards" to accommodate the world.

Boy! we sound selfish, don't we?

Well, we don't have to be selfish. Not at all. All we have to do is look back. Look back into a time when people truly lived within their means. Where the purchase of a car or home was something we saved for - not something we just went out and bought because we could. There was very little money wasted on "things" that were not essential. Those superfluous things that really don't matter.

But somehow we have allowed those "things" to define us. To determine our place in society. And that's just plain wrong. Wrong.

It's time to go back. Back to a simpler time. Where people talked to each other, ate dinner together, learned new things together.

But we have not only become elitists - we have become separatists.

What a shame.