The silver lining depends on the person. If you aspire to wealth, I suppose the old phrase that wealth isn’t destroyed, it’s merely transferred comes to mind. With times of upheaval come some of the greatest opportunities for those who look for them.

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I know it’s awful to be suffering when you’ve been responsible. But I do think America had an Icarus complex. We flew too close to the sun, despite the obvious perils, and now we’re coming crashing down. I hope our landing will softer than our mythological counterpart’s. But it was a realization that needed to come.

We’ve all been living more and more tenuously since I can recall. Even things like the S&L debacles didn’t thoroughly stunt this problem. Unfortunately, it takes something like this to get the whole country to notice. I don’t think this will come close to ridding Americans of their overwhelming sense of entitlement. But it did put a dent in that assumption, at least. I don’t know that we can be a truly great nationa again until we realize that there are consequences. For up times, there will, at some point, be a downward spiral to compensate. And that is something we must bear. Today there is still a sense of outrage that we are finally taking our lumps for the decades of drastic growth. It exists in much smaller amounts than it did at the outset of this recession, but it’s still virulent. And until we can shake off this belief that we deserve to always make money in stocks, that owning a house is not a right, and that things won’t always go our way, we’re doomed to a boom and bust cycle that will shake us to the very core.

So, in my eyes, while this recession deals us a bitter medicine, it’s a dose we very much need.

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