This has been just a lousy year for the normal working joe. Health care reform, jobs, government accountability and protections, public finances, individual rights… All played out as half-measures or outright failures. The trades in union towns like mine in Chicago are stone cold, and the old-timers warn it’s only going to get worse. Nobel economist Paul Krugman sees job improvement somewhere out in 2012-13.
But that’s the story of the decade. Flat wages. Flat job growth. Flat home appreciation. Even flat stock values. That’s not even considering the nightmare impact of 9-11 and its tragic aftermath. It wasn’t even a lost decade, it was something worse.
And yet, we live. We’re smarter. And we are determined.
Let’s turn the page.
Student Amanda Garrity donates the proceeds of her holiday album Believe to MS services in Wisconsin [with VIDEO] – WLUK-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin
