Is any of it possible?

So I'm sitting here watching the Chargers lose to the Pats, and it got me to questioning the possibility of turning things around. Are some things inevitable? Maybe, maybe not. The Chargers did just take a pick from Brady in the end zone.

What really got me to thinking was this article from Alternet. Its about the economy under the current administration. To make a long story short, the article suggests that if you're like me, a working person in their twenties, you may very well be on an unalterable path to failure. [Scifers punts, so they can't capitalize] The story goes like this... try to think of something the United States produces anymore. I mean, something where you could go down and get a job manufacturing it. Can you think of anything? I can't. The author suggests that we start developing alternative energy, medicine, infrastructure and other ideas. I'd like to see that. Presumably there are things this country can do well. Things that you and I can do well, if only we could afford to get it going. Thus I try to pay off the debt.

I don't know about you loyal reader, but I'm very concerned about the fate of our generation. It appears that the Babyboomers have been marked by mediocrity. What have they accomplished? What will we accomplish? Give me five years to get it all together. I'll let you know.

- S

P.S. Oh, and silver was up to $16.20 an ounce today. Amazing. Ron Paul might have a point.