The article written by Cal Thomas titled, "Annie-one for a little optimism" caught my eye recently. He talks about our country being more positive about the economic crisis. How are we supposed to be more positive about loosing money and businesses going down? Yes we are the world's most powerful country but even if we're more positive we're not going to come out of the crisis by putting a smile on our faces. We will have to work hard to get back to where we were and then we can be positive.
Money doesn't buy happiness and people should be happy with the things they have, like their lives and their families, but it's going to be difficult until we as a nation are back on our feet.
What I got from the article is that he feels that if we sing, "The sun will come out tomorrow" that everything will magically be ok. The fact is that we're having a financial crisis and people don't typically like to lose their hard earned money or their jobs as some businesses start to close so they may be angry about it, and singing happy songs and pretending everything is ok isn't going to make it better. We do need to pull together as a nation to help ourselves out but being fake about it and putting on a good show isn't the way to do it.
Amanda Rosengrant
York College of Pennsylvania
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