December 8th, 2011 has arrived, the world outside is cold now and the lite snow has fallen. But is you stand outside in the chill winds of December the peace of the moment shall get your attention, but it will also let you breathe well. The year 2011 is getting ready to come to a close with the Holiday Season upon us and slowly building to its conclusion. We have been through the Thanksgiving Holiday of sharing turkey with family and friends and have been shopping for the next one, Christmas.
Sadly, I am realizing the time of big Christmas Shopping is coming to an end this year. The money is not here anymore due to the inability of my working due to my disabilities from the military, lack of funds through Social Security and VA checks and my wife no longer working. Times are changing and so shall the future.
As much as I may enjoy buying for the seven grandkids my wife and I have, I also know we must be able to eat and live no matter what. So in the end how do you tell the children you love and the grandkids too, Grandpa and Grandma still love you, without spending a fortune anymore. You can’t spend what you no longer have can you?.
Next year the gifts will be cheaper and smaller for all we give to, we really have no choice. The American Economy is bad, the money is tight the price of everything goes up but not the money we get. Like millions more Americans, we have to make critical choices and changes to survive and if that means not giving as much as we like to, well than that is what will happen. You have to face the ultimate, if you have no choice don’t you?.
This Christmas Season I noticed as I turned on my Television and watched the lighting of the National Tree, in Washington, DC. by our President, the color choice was blue. It fits the countries spirits and it’s economy too. I think America is about to have a Blue Christmas for many this year. I care not what the sales numbers show, too many little ones are getting less, I know.
So, as the Christmas Shopping continues for many this year of 2011, and the Holiday slowly approaches, please stop and think of those poorer than you. Please remember the troubles some are going through. I live in Connecticut, a state they say homes rich people, if so it is not in my area. I live in the Greater Waterbury, Connecticut area, an area filled with blue-collar workers who can find no work, at this time. The factories we had that made us so glad and healthy are all gone now, no more Scovils, no more Chase Brass and Copper, Timex, and Uniroyal. No more big manufacturers of products for the world, we are now left with retail jobs is all. It doesn’t work for the people of the area at all. You can’t take blue-collar people and make them retail experts and make it work, too gruff and straight forward we be, plus customer service is not for people like me.
The buildings once filled with manufacturers and companies, are now empty brick shells, being turned into retail chains and it just doesn’t work. So stop building malls and stores and find a product that sells and be inventive and innovative too. We need manufacturing to come home to the area and revamp the world we live in!.
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