What Recession?

If you look at the amount of people drowning in Halloween contentment at the bars, you'd swear the economy is in an upswing.  But at a second glance, I think it just means a lot of us are sick of working and having nothing to show for it and would like to drink until we forget our sorrows... and our names for that matter.  We want to spend that last hard-earned dollar on a mixed drink and form closer relationships with Jim, Jack and Captain Morgan. (Seriously, those guys are so nice to me.)  I truly believe we've all gotten into this mentality that the government is against the hard-working and for the lazy.  I mean seriously, I saw a woman with 4 uncontrollable children yelling and screaming in their dirty clothes.... while she's texting on her new iPhone!!  I'm paying to better educate myself so I can work for a non-profit that barely pays me enough to live... and she has an iPhone?!  Must look nice in her brand new Coach bag with her food stamps.  Perhaps she is smarter than myself.  She doesn't have to work hard to get what she wants.  She has to do just enough to buy what she wants... and then the government pays for the necessities.  Interesting.  At the end of the day, I'm the one with a stable lifestyle and a promise for my future children.  I just have to remind myself that all the hard-work makes me a better person and a citizen this country built its values on.  That's going to have to be solace enough. Now where did I put my drink?!