Spring Break
Saving our wallets?
The economic recession is not the change everyone was hoping for.
By: Tracey Wallace
Issue date: 3/23/09 Section: Opinion
In case you haven't noticed, our country is facing its biggest economic crisis in decades. The unemployment rate inches closer to 10 percent seemingly every day and bonuses are being given to the ladies and gents who got us in this situation to begin with. Quite honestly, Revelation hardly depicted a situation as morbid and defying as this.
Of course, there is no cause to worry, for we, and by we I mean probably a very small percentage of actual Aggies but just the country as a whole, have elected a super hero for president. He's white. He's black. He's middle class. He's lower class. He's classless? No. He's Barack Obama and he is going to save our wallets; or is he?
I don't know about any of you, but I'm broke. That multi-trillion dollar bailout money has yet to find my wallet and I'm betting it never will, and I've accepted that. So, for spring break I've been doing the usual college spring break activities, watching March Madness and late night talk shows because I can't afford Panama. Thanks for the memories, recession, I'll never forget this one.
Still, I know it's all right. I know my president is working hard to end this money-less era and bring back a 90s style economy. I mean, after a whole series of his chosen ones turned out not to be such great friends with good ol' Uncle Sam, Obama has a promise or two to make up to me and my fellow Americans so that none of us start bad mouthing him Bush style. Oh wait, Jon Stewart already has.
Nonetheless, while I wait for this recession to stop becoming a worldwide obsession, I'm turning off CNN, watching March Madness and creating a fantasy bracket all my own. Then I'll post it on ESPN.com right next to this Obama guy's, this Barack Obama guy's. President Obama? The president of the United States of America has a fantasy bracket posted on ESPN.com? So, instead of keeping all of the promises he said he would keep, he is playing basketball, imaginatively? Fabulous.
See, here's what's up Mr. President, save the world before you predict North Carolina's win over Radford. Unless your fantasy bracket is going to grow a money tree that will suffice the entire American population, get off of ESPN online and go do something important, kind of like your job. Just a suggestion.
Of course, there is no cause to worry, for we, and by we I mean probably a very small percentage of actual Aggies but just the country as a whole, have elected a super hero for president. He's white. He's black. He's middle class. He's lower class. He's classless? No. He's Barack Obama and he is going to save our wallets; or is he?
I don't know about any of you, but I'm broke. That multi-trillion dollar bailout money has yet to find my wallet and I'm betting it never will, and I've accepted that. So, for spring break I've been doing the usual college spring break activities, watching March Madness and late night talk shows because I can't afford Panama. Thanks for the memories, recession, I'll never forget this one.
Still, I know it's all right. I know my president is working hard to end this money-less era and bring back a 90s style economy. I mean, after a whole series of his chosen ones turned out not to be such great friends with good ol' Uncle Sam, Obama has a promise or two to make up to me and my fellow Americans so that none of us start bad mouthing him Bush style. Oh wait, Jon Stewart already has.
Nonetheless, while I wait for this recession to stop becoming a worldwide obsession, I'm turning off CNN, watching March Madness and creating a fantasy bracket all my own. Then I'll post it on ESPN.com right next to this Obama guy's, this Barack Obama guy's. President Obama? The president of the United States of America has a fantasy bracket posted on ESPN.com? So, instead of keeping all of the promises he said he would keep, he is playing basketball, imaginatively? Fabulous.
See, here's what's up Mr. President, save the world before you predict North Carolina's win over Radford. Unless your fantasy bracket is going to grow a money tree that will suffice the entire American population, get off of ESPN online and go do something important, kind of like your job. Just a suggestion.
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