So everybody is talking about what's going on. Are we going to bail out the bankers or not? Who will decide? When will they decide and will it make any difference?

Well, it made me look at Millie Kalish's book again. Somehow in this country, people survived the Great Depression. And they sure didn't live on credit back then either. I was just reading the chapter called Wash Day in Little Heathens. She said that while her grandchildren wear clean clothes every day, as most of us do, in those days they wore the same clothes the whole week long on an Iowa farm because it was a huge undertaking to wash the clothes. Clothes washing was done on a Monday and they had to heat the water on a great stove. It was rain water that they had collected in a cistern. They separated all the colors and hung everything out to dry because of course, they didn't have an electric washing machine or a dryer and they had to push-pull the clothes in a great tub to get them clean. They washed white clothes first and then worked their way down the line to the dark clothes.

In our "throw everything away," plastic bag, iTunes, digital cable, internet driven culture, it is a treat to read how things were only about 70 years ago. That isn't very long ago. The pace was slower, the gadgets were fewer and probably alot more understandable.

I saw 60 Minutes tonite and they were talking about a super collider that will enable us to transport people, like how they did in Star Trek, "beam me up Scottie."

At the pace that everything changes today, we may look back on this financial mess as a blip. On the other hand, I can't help but be angry at bailing out companies that engaged in pure greed.

I think those CEOs ought to go back in time and spend a week on a farm in the 1930's and then maybe they would understand something that's worth understanding.

Please leave your comments, I would love to hear them. Thanks.