Costs of Oil, Insurance, Education and Politics.... What's a regular guy to do?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

We’re now paying over $4.00 per gallon for gasoline at the pumps.  Our insurances:   health, vehicle, home and business, are starting to skyrocket.  The financial markets are great for CEOs, Hedge Funders and Ponzi Scheme artists, but not so great for average investors.  My credit rating keep climbing, but my credit limits keep getting the shaft.  I am doing less business;  with less profit margin; with less on- time payments from customers.  My property values keep declining, my personal tax burden is increasing  and my son is getting less educated in the public school system.  I am being forced to do a lot more with a whole lot less, as I assume a lot of people are having to do, and I’m not really happy about it, but I don’t know what else to do other than cast my vote, keep my head down and keep churning (pun intended) my feet.

Where do we draw the line?

There are a lot more educated and learned people on this site that should know a whole lot more about the situation that we’re in than I.  I am hoping that some of you can at least give me and others a glimpse of hope that we won’t completely crash into the dark ages as a nation.  The national politics are numbing.  The foreign policies are numbing. The amount of distrust, disdain and general apathy towards anything government, national or local, is numbing.  I don’t see a way out.   We can’t spend our way out.  We can’t cut our way out.  We can’t save our way out.   The whole system is completely fucked, and I, middle-class-America, feels like the re-used condom that keeps getting abused over and over and over…..

My little diatribe for the night.  Feel free to comment.  And please, if you have answers to my little problem, don’t be shy, I’d gladly pay my few, remaining American dollars to read your solution.

Tony

[mtraininjax]

There is always the Moon Alice! I hear its nice this time of year.