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Everyone is predicting economic disaster these days. Be it a huge sudden melt down, or decades of slow decline, it seems everyone agrees that we are headed for harder times.

I agree with them. If you can balance a checkbook, I don't see how you can disagree.

But I'm not so sure this coming 'disaster' is really a disaster at all. Perhaps it is more of an 'intervention'. Our country has lost its way in many ways, and maybe this is a opportunity for us to find our way again.

I hope that in the face of adversity, we can come together and find the positive qualitys that define us a Americans.

If there is less fuel, perhaps people will reconnect with their local neighborhoods, rather than treating their homes as island destinations where they retreat after work.

If there is less fuel, perhaps there will be stronger incentives for people to buy local food and products.

If there is a unemployement, perhaps others generosity will be awakened.

When there is no money to buy the next electronic gizmo or piece of fashionable clothing, perhaps people will see the absurdity of what the entertainment industry has be selling us for the past 3 decades.

What came of the depression of the 1930s? A generation of people we commonly call 'The Greatest Generation'.

What do you think?