I'm going to solve the debt crisis!!!! No, really.

Every time I write something new, I intend to do it a lot more often from then on. And, as you can see, it always fails. But now, as a new mommy with new responsibilities and new time management skills, I will try to make a commitment to post at least once a week.

That being said, on to the meat of the post.

Today I want to talk about this whole economic thing. It really sucks. But these days, more and more young adults are moving back in with their parents in order to make ends meet. The extended family living situation is becoming one of the only options for a lot of people, and it's sad to think that I may not get to have a nice big family house that my kids will get to come back to some day and tell their children, "This is where I grew up." Right now, my fiance and I are living with our infant son in my parents' basement. I have been looking for a job off and on for almost a year now, and been unemployed for over nine months. Wes gets maybe 30 hours a week at a barely better than minimum wage job. And this is how most young families are having to face their first years as a couple and as parents- Barely scraping by, feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt for what they wish they could give their kids... It's all too common.

The worst part, though, is that it seems like there is no real solution. The kids on Facebook have suddenly become experts on national finance and apparently have it all figured out... But it's all been tried before.

We could become a socialist nation- If we were the Utopian society that the original socialists dreamed of. You see, socialism only works when everyone is equally motivated fiscally and patriotically to contribute their fair share of labor for the overall cache of resources. But in the real world, for someone to make a buck off of no labor, someone has to give up a buck for their hard labor. In other words, some people will work less diligently (because of little motivation, disabilities, inability to do the work... whatever the reason may be) and some will work far more diligently. This means that the top of the society, the doctors and lawyers that put themselves through rigorous education and training, will have wasted that effort because they will accrue just as many resources as, for instance, someone who never finished high school and works part time. It's a fairly "ideal" situation that everyone shares the wealth, but the fact of the matter is, capitalism works because it adds great reward for great effort. If there is no reward for great effort, what real human will make the effort to begin with? We are people. We have human imperfections. Working simply for "The Greater Good" doesn't cut it for us. Eventually, we would all become the little educated part time laborers that make up the "lower ranks" of the society and our nation would collapse.

We could continue the way we've been going. The "One Percent," as our generation is so fond of making the villain, could keep accumulating all of the nation's wealth and prosperity, and people like us, my little family and I, could slowly sink into a hole of poverty and neediness that quite frankly scares the shit out of me. The "ninety-nine percent" could fade into obscurity even though we are the majority of the nation's population. Our voices could continue to go unheard in Congress, and the tycoon corporations could continue whispering in our politicians' ears. Yeah, that's what we ALL want... In this scenario, our nation would also surely collapse.

We could make the nation into a nation of "Bootstrap Pullers" and stop giving out help to the people, again like us, that would be lost without government assistance. My son can't get vaccinated without his Medicaid- We simply have no funds. So all of you older gentlemen that rant about Obamacare and tell us we need to "do it ourselves" and that "more of the budget needs to go to military expansion and homeland improvement projects" need to take a reality check and let it dawn upon you that someday you could be disabled, or your company could go bust, or a natural disaster could destroy everything you've worked for all of your lives, and the government wouldn't help you out. You'd have to dig out those good ol' bootstraps again just when you thought you became some sort of success. The American Dream takes a lot of hard work, but without government assistance programs that "replete our national treasury", what's protecting your American Dream when things go wrong? Again, national collapse.

So all of you Facebookers who have it "All figured out", remember that there are people that went through decades business school and that have managed national budgets before that can't figure this shit out. Do you really think your idealistic trash talking on the internet is going to fix our country? The best thing you can do for our nation's economic crisis is to zip your lip, become an informed consumer instead of a mindless one, buy only what you need and small, useful luxuries, and give back to your community in ways like shopping locally (for the taxes) and by donating time, money, or other resources where you can to the people that don't have the opportunities you do. Get off your stupid social networking sites and do something about it. No effort is too small to start mending the fiscal wounds that the United States have suffered so much from. Seriously. Take a look at your bed consumerist habits before you blame the politicians and corporations that you have enabled. It will take time, and believe me, I have an idea of how much effort (I love me some Starbucks!!!), but it's the only way to get things going the way we ALL want them to.

This is your favorite Songbird Mommy, signing out.