It’s easy to call me naive, and I am not too proud to say that I probably am atleast a little bit. And you wouldnt be the first person to tell me that I will grow out of optimism-I still hope that I never do.
However, I am not some idealistic teenager waiting for the harsh realities of life to teach me some stuff. I am infact, a young mother of 2 boys-one of which has a learning disability, if you want to talk about inadequacies in public schools. I am a full-time employee, student and mother. I am married, but I am the household earner. I have a retirement account that I contribute 4.5% of my gross monthly income into-luckily I do have the time to ride out the current storm. I have student loans and daycare costs, I have a father that is self-employed and thus has no health insurance options he can afford. No I dont have a mortgage, I am blessed because when HUD tried to “help” us get a loan for our first home we couldnt find one at the right price-thanks to the market of yesterday I dont have a variable rate loan today.
Most importantly, I am a good listener. While I have probably always been atleast mostly liberal, I didnt become political until the last year-actually you can thank Hillary for that one. Her work on universal health insurance and increased education spending inspired me to become involved. No Obama can’t make the kind of change I desire, but I think he can help start it. The easy example I look to is gas prices; gas prices were high because they have controlled supply and unending demand, but when the threat of reduced demand came from public outrage and green voting then prices went down-because they believe we will use less in the future instead of more. So much is affected by perception. If it takes my generation to make this kind of real change, then wont we need a motivating leader to get us started? Even if it is only perception?
Thank you for your kind words Pat J.
