In this day and age, the economy is uncertain. People who had believed their jobs were secure for the next 30 or 40 years have been "let go" due to downsizing. It's not the corporate CEO's losing their jobs due to the lagging economy; it's the laboring man and woman that is the very backbone of the American economy.
It's not easy to watch homes go; nor is it easy to give up the privileged lifestyle so many have become accustomed to before the housing bubble of the Bush Administration burst. Yet, here we are: the impoverished, the middle class Americans, even some of those in the lower upper economic class, walking the same path of economic duress--even while Wall Street execs are living in the fat of their own excess, bringing in bonuses they do not deserve.
What can the common man do to combat the state of economic oppression brought on by corporate greed? We can start by remembering. That's right; remembering. Remembering what? Remembering how the American economy was built. By individual businessmen who sold their own wares, or waged their own goods and services at reasonable rates to their neighbors, friends, and others in the communities they lived in. Small business is not dead; in fact, quite the opposite is true. People who have been laid off have resorted to doing what it takes to make ends meet--selling goods on ebay, marketing trade to anyone who needs help, and even by doing a few favors for free.
We can no longer trust Wall Street or big banks to keep our money safe. Our country is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the Congressional Republicans are placing the blame on a Democratic President who
inherited an economic fiasco the day he took the oath of office. If this country is to bounce back, then the common man must take control of the economy and stand for himself.
