Economic Crisis for the Deaf

Economic woes have hurt, dismantled and shoved the world into a stalemate.  Hundreds if not, thousands have lost their jobs, homes and even their small businesses.  Nothing is quite the same for anyone in this struggling economy.

1929- If the world could remember, this was one of the darkest times in history. A true stalemate across the globe when markets fell, money withdrawn from banks. People loosing jobs, businesses folding up. No one know what was going on. The wealthy taking their shares and money out of banks that were failing to protect their assets. The stock market crashed and the Great Depression would gloom over the United States and the World for a few years. Because, America was the “bloodline” for the world’s economy.

Repeat?

Are we repeating something that happened a little more than seventy (70) years ago?  Lets hope not, because the world cannot afford to be plunged into another Decade of despair  and poverty again. Let alone the wealthy get richer and the poor get even more poorer than before. We’re just barely floating with our heads above water and a “Repeat” is something Americans cannot afford. Yes we’re in the twenty first Century and often, trends do repeat themselves to make “anew”. But our economy cannot reinvent itself nor can it renew itself.  We should take a history lesson from President Roosevelt who fought tirelessly to restore our country’s greatest past time.

Whose been Hit?

Virtually everyone, every walk of life and background have suffered some kind of economic lost. Even me, I’ve had to make a decision to end a good steady income job. Why?  good question you’ve asked. Travel was too great for my car. Gas prices- another end of this story, have been sky rocketing out of control. Just for me to travel one hour and forty-five minutes to a job really eats a hole in my pocket.  Now if you ask me, from my stand point. No woman wants to hear from her man, that he had to quit his job because of economic strife and is no longer the bread winner.

What’s being done?

I’m sure everyone can account for what the Obama Administration is trying to do. Everyone have had at one point either read their news papers, watched the internet and of course the cable news about the Stimulus Package. But many, including the Deaf and Hard of Hearing have wondered, ” Did it come a little too late?”  Some have seen a change and some are seeing things go from bad to worse.