Yesterday Levitra Professional morning before leaving levofloxacin for school, my thirteen year old son came to me with, “I know things were bad with the economy, mom, but I didn’t amoxicillin know it was this bad.”
Apparently, buy generic levitra he had been listening, really listening, to the news while getting ready for school. “Will this affect us?” he asked. And the real doozie, “Are we going to be able to stay in our house?”
Okay, big breath now. The way you answer this, Susan, is critical. I start with, “Nathan, our nation is strong. We have had economic challenges in the past and have emerged an even stronger nation.” Hmmm, pretty good answer I thought.
Then he fired back with, “How did we get into this mess, Mom? How did it get so bad?”
Okay, be careful how you answer this.
“Well, Nathan, it is all about greed and the consequences of uncontrolled, excessive greediness. In this case, specifically, the housing market was booming, the value of our houses were increasing, interest rates were low, and the stock market was booming.
The banks wanted to take advantage of the good economic times to make more money and decided to lessen restrictions on mortgages so they could extend lots and lots of mortgages to people who in the past have not been able to afford mortgages.
Unlike in the old days where your mortgage stayed with the one bank, now banks decided to bundle buy cialis tablets these mortgages together and sold them to buy cialis cheap firms on Wall Street who turned around and sold them to other firms and other countries as investment products.
People were really happy about online cheap Ampicillin Without Prescription buy getting to buy a house for their family, but they didn’t really understand the financing behind these loans.
Because when housing prices started to decline, interest rates started to raise, they had mortgages Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription that were more than the value of their levitra pharmacokinetics house and higher than what they could afford to pay. So they stopped paying their mortgages and walked away from their houses. The investments became worthless. This was the beginning of the problems we’re experiencing now.”
Whew…hopefully I didn’t mess too much of that up, but how could he really understand all this mumbo jumbo when most adults didn’t.
“Not buy generic buy generic levitra Jelly”>Cialis Jelly propecia amoxil sure I understand all of that, mom, but why are so many businesses in buying generic propecia trouble?, ” asks my very confused thirteen year old.
“Because, they were all involved in one way or another with these bad mortgages. Now the government is getting involved to bail these companies out, ” I explained while privately chiding myself for not paying more attention to my college micro- and macro-economic classes.
“What does that mean, mom? Bailout, I mean.”
“It means that the government is stepping in and giving these companies loans amoxil online so that they don’t go bankrupt.”
“Where does the government get the money from?”
“From a few places. Mostly it’s loans from other countries like China, Japan, Saudi Arabia. But it’s us, the American taxpayers Levitra Viagra online delivery that will eventually pay down the loans through higher taxes.”
“But I thought Obama and McCain said they weren’t raising our taxes,” replied my son, Viagra pharmacy “>buy generic levitra very impressed the diet pills that he even knows that.
“They’re politicians, Nay, cheap amoxil buy viagra and they want to get elected so they tell people what they want to hear in order to get elected. They’re not being honest about the long-term. Anyone who thinks our taxes aren’t going up is fooling themselves. We have a lot of debt that needs to be paid, and the American taxpayer has to pay it, ” explains online lasix mom while climbing off the soapbox.
“Then cytotec abortion pill why don’t we just print more money?”, asks this youngster viagera who has only known excess and good times in his short life.
“We can’t. It’s not a good idea because prices will rise here and the American dollar will be worth even less in cialis brand generic flagyl other countries. That would really cause problems.”
With Nathan still looking very anxious and confused, I added, “Look, we have the best minds in the world working on this problem, Nathan. They’ll figure it all out. Don’t you worry about it. It’s something mom and dad will worry about. Now, do you have your homework?”
While I watch him walking down the driveway to catch his bus, I think. Yes, as parents, we worry…worry that diflucan generic our children are safe, worry that we can nurture and guide them to become the adults they were born to become…and we worry…worry about what we’re leaving for our sons and daughters to deal with.
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