The benefits of our bad economy

I think it was a great time to get married. When the people’s finances are tight, the pastor’s finances follow. Jen and I are learning to live within our means, responsibly. When some of our debt is paid off and our available money per month increases, we will have already established good spending habits that will serve us throughout our marriage.

Yesterday, I went out for about 45 minutes hunting for a narrow, winding road through the woods to drive on. When I found an acceptable one, I drove it 4 times. I haven’t experienced this simple joy simple joy in almost 2 years, what with having to be so conscious of how much fuel is costing me. Thinking about it, though, my little trip was wasteful. So, that may be negative of cheap goods and the recession. Oh well, it was so worth it!

Being unemployed gives me more time with my family.

It makes it more difficult to create massive spending programs, so while the government may be spending billions and billions of dollars on bailouts, it will be that much more difficult to create nationalized healthcare, nationalized college tuition grants (with super-expanded pell grants, etc.), higher C.A.F.E. standards, and whatever else the future democratic white house and congress wants to do.

And about gas prices, yeah. I think it’s great! Gas is $1.54 where I am. I say we should have an economic crisis every year!

People are skipping eating out and learning to cook. All kinds of benefits, from family life to health, from that one.

@8 I hear the the French Foreign Legion’s recruitment numbers are way up in Western Europe.

The slowdown in illegal immigration caused by the crappy economy will mean less Latino Democrat voters in the next round of elections.

Kirk

They vote for the Donks because the Donks use government to give them stuff. Latinos are only selectively conservative.

Manxman,

Give them what? I don’t know what you’re talking about. While Hispanics covers a very wide swath of ethnic groups and social categories, they are by and large hard-working, self-sufficient, socially conservative, family oriented, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps type of people.

Are you saying they want handouts? If greencards, the opportunity to find their own employment, and generally “not getting deported” are handouts, then yeah, Latinos are quite the welfare type. Heck, I might even be a welfare type.

Not at all humorous but perhaps the bad economy might give us a chance to contemplate how things might be different today if there hadn’t been 48,589,993 abortions in the last 35 years. Think of what life would be like with that many more consumers, workers contributing to the retirement plans of their elders, entrepreneurs starting more businesses, more taxpayers for those politicians who like that, etc. I wonder if our economy is being trashed by a God-informed set of conditions bent on retribution for America’s greed and violence against the unborn.