First of all, we don’t yet know how bad it will get. The coming bad times will be worse for some than others. Unfortunately some very productive people in the private sector could be severely hurt. But we don’t know yet if Obama can overide our constitutional rights, we don’t yet how socialist the economy will become, we don’t know if Universal Health Care will pass and in what form, or Card Check either. We don’t know deep unemployment will be or will the financial system collapse. We don’t know how severe or how many future terrorist attacks there will be.

It is best to be prepared for the worst, but there are still causes for optimism.

In just past few days, several notable lefties, Frank Rich, Mo Dowd, Paul Kriugman, and Tom Friedman , as well as notable Rino’s partial to O like Peggy Noonan, Nicole Wallace and Kathleen Parker have all written stinging rebukes of the Bama performance so far, and those all were before O’s Chuckles the Clown act on Sixty Minutes. We may be seeing the wheels coming off the Bama Bandwagon.

It does no one any good to wallow in the negativity of it all. It is best to work for a better day for America. Focus on the work at hand, not your declining fortunes. Many of us tend to get wrapped up in the expectations, the status, the social pressures and the comforts of modern life. Those most wrapped up in the comforts and expectations of what was will be those most likely to be depressed. Remember, except for those unfortunate victims of violence, no matter how bad it gets, most Americans will still be vastly better off than most people living today in the world, after all this is over, and it will be over someday. Be grateful and thank God for your opportunities to sill live a better life here in America. America can still survive as the beacon of freedom and liberty, if we fight for it.