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We seem to be in one heck of a mess lately.

Today the stock market dropped 358 points.

Ouch!

Make that a double ouch!

Not only were my eyes glazed over as I watched the millions of panicked sellers dumping stocks like it was the end of the world, but I also watched my 401K continuing to erode like one of those levees in the Midwest.

It seems like we have nothing but bad news on the tube every single day.

Today it was $140 a barrel oil. That’s a new record. Come to think of it, everyday seems to be a new record for that one.

Sky-rocketing food.  Sky-rocketing gas. I wonder if I can convert my car to run on bananas? There seem to be plenty of those and they’re still cheap.

The only good news being talked about a lot was that North Korea finally released their nuclear declaration.

Hey, who cares if it was only 1 year late, or that it doesn’t include any information on nuclear transfers to Syria or that we still don’t know how many nuclear bombs they really have.

But hey, we’re taking them off the terror watch list and lifting a few sanctions.

Whew! We are in one big pile of…well you know what I mean.