Our Economic Crisis

Every time I have turned on the news lately - admittedly this usually only happens once or twice a week when on the treadmill- the top story focuses on our economic crisis. From economics professors to cooking experts I am given advice on how to save money at the pump, to how to cook with vegetables grown in my yard. Don’t worry I have noticed that gas costs more and food prices have risen. We have even made choices to use public transportation and shop at different stores to offset our costs- but crisis? I don’t know, when I think of the word crisis I think of something that might hurt threaten one’s personal safety or significant aspirations.

I read the Economist so I do realize that my little middle class American life routine is not a good measure of the ripple effect of global food shortages and their effect on the poorest nations, but I am concerned about my little American life. Will I allow the media slowly move my outlook towards a crisis mode that causes my mind to fixate on my finances and our endangered economy, or will I remember what I experienced in January when parents begged us to take their children back to the United States so they would be fed. Our little American lives might be in a crisis.