Fear

I fear for the first time today that I might actually have to stay in Germany past my contract next summer.

I'm afraid that the US economy will be in such bad shambles (unemployment at least 9% -12%) that I won't simply be able to find a job in the States. I might actually have to stay in Germany and keep teaching English. The thought of staying in Germany isn't too bad, it's the thought of staying in my current job which kills me.

This economic bailout of the markets (whatever happened to the invisible hand? free markets? capitalism without risk?) is costing the US taxpayer billions upon billions of dollars in which we just don't have to spend. It's not there. Why? If the world financial system was so dependent on the US government saving the banks, then where exactly is support from central banks around the world?

Oil prices shot up $25 today.

We've allowed our own country to internally combust while doing nothing. I received over the weekend my application for absentee ballot. Not that an absentee ballot really counts anyway. Its just a farce. But Ohio is a swing state and I've got to do what I can to uphold democracy, so to speak.

Can't have your cake and eat it too.