Finances are only just BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS!!!

[Mortblanc]

Five years pass and post 15 takes up where post 14 left off like it was the next stitch in the mend of an old sock.

All the while pay raises came and went, members spoke out in frustration and when the new meds kicked in they were never heard from again.

The recession ended. Sad to say so for some folks, but it really did. No breakdown of the social order, no rebuild of society in a new frame, no pushing of the "reset" button, which has been the threat since 1850 or so.

Things are as good today as they have been since the end of WW2, probably longer. No one is ever happy with the situation as it stands, even if it is recognized as an improvement by others.

And the people that want to work are working, the people that don't want to work are still not working and one group gripes about the high taxes and the other group gripes about no tax money coming to their pockets to make things even and a society trying to hold them down.

And the real constant is that things have never gotten bad enough where anyone was really willing to do much about the situation, and talk about the ungrateful ones that did is unacceptable.