The Economy Rehab Letter

Dear Economy,

What the hell? What are you doing with your life. You sure have been a real disappointment to us lately. You have been on a destructive path for so long we forgot what you used to be like. We know it is not all your fault, people have taken advantage of you, and that was wrong. Remember when those lender groups had been abusing you and you didn’t know what to do. Finally you had the courage to tell us and we bailed you out of a bad situation. We thought everything was finally over. We had no idea the automotive groups were doing the same thing. I can’t believe we overlooked it for so long, I mean really an H3, how could they think they would get away with that. I suppose it was only a matter of time until they got caught, but the damage had already been done. We miss you so much and just want you to get better. We are really trying to take better care of you and want to stop being so reckless. I guess it is easy to blame all the big corporations and mark them as bad guys but we haven’t made this any easier. All the credit debt we have put you through, all those jobs we outsourced, we sure have let you down. I know it seems like a tease with the chatter of a stimulus package a second time around to get things going. It won’t be like last time, we really have put some thought into this and it’s possible things will work out this time. I know the new head of the household has already faltered on a few issues but he is trying, hopefully he will be able to take care of you better then the last one. If not we are really going to be in trouble. So please, get better, we really miss you around here. We didn’t mean to shout earlier, you have hurt us as much as we have hurt you and we think we could all work this out together. So chin up, we will get through this and be better for it.

Love,

America