Anyone else worried the Bush regime will crash their career?

[debbierlus]

We are JUST starting to have some success. It has taken us five years to build our business (auctions & estates) to the point it is at now.

I feel like we could be on the verge of something big, something really good for our family and future.

I am trying to be optimistic. But, I am worried that the coming economic collapse will destroy everything we are working for....

It feels so vulnerable. I realize that the future is never certain, and that we must persevere against doubt.

It seems like the world is under a dark cloud with Bush & his thugs in power.

[begin_within]

1. Yes, because they have engineered a massive transfer of wealth to the rich

leaving nothing for the middle and lower classes, therefore making far fewer potential customers for my products.

[leftofthedial]

2. already happened.

My 25-year career ended when Dick and George started destroying the economy.

[Dukkha]

3. don't you know it's STILL Clinton's fault?

I was just talking the my g/f about this. We were discussing getting a home together and that we should wait until 2008 when this dumbfuck is gone and the economy is more stabilized.

[Droopy]

4. Those bastards need me

You cannot separate the American trucker and the American economy. Even when times aren't that great you will still see me out there rolling down the road. I cannot be outsourced.

[Wapsie B]

5. No thank god.

But just to be on the safe side I think it would be worth it to get into the market for personal security or somesuch area. Fear sells.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Nope.

I work for a mortgage company helping people who are delinquent on their mortgage get current again. Bush has our business booming, sad to say. And I really like a lot of my mortgagors, so telling some of them "I'm sorry, but you don't qualify" kills me.
Duckie

[Lisa]

7. yes. Helping people figure out how to prepare for global warming ...

... and make it less severe, if possible. It has taken a lot of work by some very talented people, to explain why this is an issue (and I'm so glad that most North Americans now support this). It took 2 decades, with guys like Bush disparaging the effort and chucking brickbats. First they said that it was all in our imaginations, and then they started saying that they had the answers. They scoffed at all the ideas which people spent years working on -- I tried to come up with wildfire hazard projections, and other researchers I know were developing carbon-trading systems, drought forecasts and water management strategies. The answer was, "oh, the market will look after that".

And now that we've seen how awful their way of dealing with climate-related emergencies is -- their response to Katrina, for example -- I'm afraid that they've managed to dawdle and stall, to the point where it's going to be difficult to adapt or mitigate. I can just see them turning around and blaming the scientists for not telling them sooner (just as they blamed the CIA for not warning them about what a mess Iraq would become).