Balance

It is a while that all I read in the papers is how bad the economy is and how troubled is the financials of not only this country, but around the world. The prices of food, gas and most consumer goods are way up and the houses have plummeted, and the economists can go on and on and babble about it to aggravate the frustrated consumer even more and plunge them further into panic and depression.

On the other hand, companies like Exxon and Chevron have record profit for this quarter in the history of US or any other place, now how they justify their profits while millions of people are suffering from high prices, is another story for another day, but GM, one of the biggest American companies has lost so much profit that it is record as well. Many banks who were making record profits years ago, are now going out of the game one by one.

But am I the only one who sees the trend here? Gas companies have more profits, car companies less. Food goes up and houses come down. Euro is up and US$ down. And on goes the list. The way I see it, things are always, always, in balance. One has to loose so the other one gain and that is the rule of the world, and that is what exactly is happening now a days. One loses a Dollar and the other one finds it. It is not fair, I know, especially when middle class is on the loser side and upper class on the profitable side, but this is how the world works.

Until the day that we respect and value money over our humanity and ethics, then this is how it is going to be. Until we do not use our brain to find the catch 22 in every too good to be true situation, then this is how it is going to be. Until we do not learn to live within our means, nothing improves. There are vultures out there that justify inhuman business profit by any means they can and we let them. Until then things remain the same. Other than that, whatever goes up must come down and that is how it is.