dear hissyfit fussypants

To the current political naysayers regarding the American economy: we tried your way. For years, decades even. It did not work. Now someone is trying something else to keep the capitalist machine running. If you think this is socialism, you had best sit down in front of a dictionary.

You want me to buy American? I do, when the product is worth a good goddamn. But none of us can continue to have the standard of living to which we have grown accustomed, shitty American products or no, so here is a thought: stop losing your tiny minds over the fact that the only constant is change.

And no, this is not directed at fiscal conservatives. This is directed at everyone.  You too.  Everyone who whinges about how everything is in the toilet: what are you doing about it?  Really, tell me. I want to know.

From here, I see a lot of panic and a lot of negativity, and since when did either of these fix the world?

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Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

Posted on 6 Mar 2009 in Diary
  • David

    We didn’t get in this shape over night, it ain’t gonna be fixed over night either. And both parties are just as guilty. Sitting around doing the boo-hoo sob sob crap won’t fix it any faster.

    As for me personally, I’m doing my part to help the economy by buying a new laptop sometime over the next week. My country **NEEDS** me to buy this laptop. And I’m sticking to that story!

    • http://cygnoir.net cygnoir

      Agreed. And which laptop?

  • http://flickr.com/kevbo Kevbo

    Yeah, I love the talk that somehow the GOP just didn’t manage to get their message out there. Otherwise things would’ve been fine by now. If we had just stuck with them!

    Their thoughtless contrarian protestations to Obama’s every move naturally would indicate that they’re just sitting on a freakin’ GOLDMINE of fixes for what ails us!! (Which would really mean, let’s keep doing the same thing and pretend it’s better!)

    I’m eating Cocoa Pebbles. My little way of stimulating the economy.

    • http://cygnoir.net cygnoir

      Cocoa Pebbles stimulate *something*, but I’m not sure it’s the economy …

  • http://www.proppe.org Gunnar

    Man, I hate those whingers. ;)

    • http://cygnoir.net cygnoir

      I don’t get it. Are you saying that I’m whinging? If so, I think that word does not mean what you think it means.

      • http://www.proppe.org Gunnar

        Oh… I thought we were on the same side of the anti-toilet whinging brigade. Maybe we’re all whinging it.

  • http://bibliophylax.net Bibliophylax

    To put it another way: some people haven’t had to lower their standard of living recently. What were they doing right? What can we learn from them? (I’m not talking about billionaire bankers.)

    • http://cygnoir.net cygnoir

      Maybe they have mattresses stuffed with cash!

      • http://bibliophylax.net Bibliophylax

        Bloody forward-thinking careful contrarian bastards! Why didn’t we think of that?

  • laurelkhall

    What am I doing about it…

    I’m doing a startup business. That is my contribution. I’m trying to build something from nothing. I’m being creative with my finances, not spending as much, kind of whining about it a little and hoping it doesn’t last forever. I’m working hard to make this business fly because if it doesn’t I’ll be thrown into the employment pool where everyone is on the chopping block from the day they start.

    Your blog is interesting and I’m glad I stumbled upon it via Twitter.

    • http://cygnoir.net cygnoir

      Thanks for sharing this. I respect entrepreneurs a great deal, and particularly in this economic climate. You must be quite a tenacious person! Good luck with your business.