Educating ourselves- The Economy is bad

America, land of the free! America land of opportunity! America the beautiful, America the damn great!...and negroe's, jews, gentiles, asians, whites and latino's alike are all fearing losing their jobs or struggling trying to find one. Now if your wondering what the in the world this title has to do with the above lines....well if you listen, I'll tell you :)...One thing that I do as an instructor, is to make sure that my students know that it is OKAY to ask a question that they may think is dumb, or that everyone already knows. Everyone is talking about the economy is bad. People are scared they will lose their job any day now. People are fearful. But do we really KNOW what's going on? At the end of the day, do we really know about Roth IRA's, investments, 401K's etc. I never thought that we as a people, were ignorant, but we are, when were' too fearful to ask what we may think is too basic to ask the next person. Sometimes, I feel like I need to take Political Science 101 all over again, because do I truly know all of the facts. We all hear what they say on television, but do we really know what is BEHIND the messages and policies. So this blog, is not to give a quick tutorial on any of these things. But more of a proposal, to say why don't we start giving a fact a day...on any subject you want. Talk to your friends, family, co-workers, etc. lets stop having such an elitist mentality within our community, and lets just try to help each other out in the best way we can...if we do that, I don't think we'll be as SCARED as many of us currently are and we'll see what we can do to move forward and position ourselves in such a way, that we are self-sufficient and dependent upon ourselves..This can be done, just read about any history book....that's all for now folks!