Haven't Been Around Awhile -- Life Happens -- But We Shouldn't Go Backwards

Sorry, I haven't been writing for my blog for quite a bit of time. The only thing I can say is that life is happening.

And obviously there have been some changes to the blogging software that are quite obvious to me as I try and type this missive.

Anyway, I do plan to get back to this blog. There is a lot happening in my life and a lot happening in life around us all. Some of it good and some of it not so good -- not just in my life but, it seems, in many other people lives.

I've had some good news in my life about photography but not enough to say that I can now make a living as a professional photographer. Still, I have had opportunities arise that look to be promising.

On the other hand, the job market in general -- and for some of my skills in general -- looks less promising. Let's just say for now that out-sourcing is taking its toll on a lot of us with high tech/computer skills.

I certainly believe that is no less due to the politics and policies of quite a number of Republicans, especially a couple who are running for Governor and U.S. Senator in California (Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina) -- I personally call them the quintessential "out-sourcing Queens" since that seemed to be their policies as CEOs of their former corporations. I cannot see them changing if they are to become elected officials.

My fear is that if they are elected, they will push to implement policies that only further erode the middle-class in America and will send too many better paying jobs out of this country. So you can only expect to see an increase in unemployment if Whitman and Fiorina are elected and manage to influence economic policy.

I've written about the "dismantling of the middle-class in America" in a previous blog. Unfortunately, the newly charged "Tea Partiers" in America (and quickly embraced by the GOP) -- many of whom are middle-class -- seem to be blind to what the GOP will do to make it harder in this country to either aspire to become or remain a member of America's middle class -- let alone that old American dream of becoming wealthy.

How unfortunate that these "tea partiers" do not envision how far their economic lives will be set back by allowing the GOP to revert our country to the policies of GW Bush.

Unfortunately, they are misplacing their blame for our current economic straits. The hated "economic stimulus packages" and tax policies that have gotten us into this economic mess did not come out of the current Barack Obama abminstration.

Those policies were put forth and enacted during the Bush administration. But people's memories, unfortunately, are very short and they want to blame the current administration.

The other thing people do not seem to understand is that correcting the course of a large economy such as ours takes time to reverse that course. There is a certain amount of momentum that needs to be corrected that does not happen over night.

In fact, it would be lucky if it happened over just a couple of years and really takes more like nearly a decade to change.

So think about it: The Bush policies have had several years to influence our economic situation. And where are we? In the midst of the most difficult recession this country has seen since the Great Depression. Why nobody wants to blame GW Bush administration for this economic disaster puzzles me.

People seem to want to blame Obama for what he inherited from the failed policies of the GW Bush administration.

How unfortunate that people do not seem to understand the difficulties of this country's economic momentum and misplace blame for an economic disaster that was created by the GW Bush administration.

The real shame is that the voting public now wants to go back to the failed policies of the previous administration before a course correction can even begin to happen under the new administration.

Frankly, I'm prepared -- but not happy -- for the worst.

My biggest disappointment is that most American really just don't pay proper attention.