Fear

As a small business owner for the past twenty years, my attitude and optimism never waved nor floundered. Though I started my business during the S&L crisis in 1988, I've had growth in sales consistently up until this year. Since October of 2008 sales have decreased and are staying down simply because of fear. The consuming public has had there net worth decreased by 40% or more, There homes devalued, There banks won't give them credit, and there government says that they have to sacrifice more by wanting to increase there taxes and lower the standard living that they have been accustom to. Simply put there security has been shaken and fear of tomorrow has set in.

When fear replaces confidence is like a speeding car on a crowded superhighway suddenly slamming on its breaks. The chain reaction is devastating because your helpless to avoid the collisions that ensue. My question along with everyone else I meet is Why? Why has this been allowed to happen the way that it has? Why were any of the warning signs so disguised that we were not allowed to react if we choose to? Were we conspired against so that we would be forced to change our ways? Is the lifestyle of the United States such an obstacle to achieving one world order that it is required to be destroyed? These are questions that wacko conspiracy theorists say not normal citizens that live their lives and mind their own business. None of this makes any sense for logic and reason has been abandoned and now fear resides.