There is a lot of hype about the extension of the Tax Credit. Some look at it both from a professional point of view, and from a personal perspective as a citizen. I understand that. I wrote about it in Are You Ready to Write a Check for $8,000?

Some are just happy and there is even a notion that all real estate agents gotta be ecstatic about it. Well, not me. And I hope not you.

I am trying to understand how could it happen that we became so narrow minded. We are against wasteful spending, but we are allowing the government to do it at an unprecedented pace. The realities of life are changing, but we are fighting to preserve the status quo by all means. Even borrowing from our own future.

I am afraid the biggest consequence of the way the government is fixing the economy is the one that we are not expecting. And which we are not discussing.

It is the change in our mindsets. In Democrats, Republicans, independents...

A mindset of free people relying on themselves is what makes them entrepreneurial. It is what makes them find the ways to better themselves and the Nation as a result of taking care of themselves.

A mindset of people becoming happy campers if they can get a buck for themselves in the overall destructive and wasteful giveaways is the first step to socialism. Because it is no longer important where we are going, as long as we can pick up some slack on the way.

The road to Socialism does not start when the government proposes another wasteful and politically charged giveaway. It starts when we, The People, become a group of people. When we become happy campers every time we are on the receiving end. When the interest of the Nation becomes the fragmented interest of groups, a blanket that we try to pull our way...

We were angry with banks getting trillions, but we are so pleased with home buyers getting billions... Guys, it is the same waste, different recipients. Since when we start praising the smaller waste as the Good for the nation? It is our nation's check book that is already empty, and we are using our Nation's Credit Card. Bborrowing billions instead of trillions will simply make us bankrupt a day later, but that's where we are heading... and we are happy campers?

It is when we claim that we are to protect the environment, and then decide to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward, which should have never been built there in the first place. But then we did not know... We can now say that we are wiser today and correct it... but we lack the courage to do the right thing for the future, and instead do a politically correct thing for today. We will rebuild it... As a symbol of what?

If symbols are so important to us as nation, why we can't rebuild theTwin Towers? Eight and a half years later it is still not there, while it took initially 5 years to build them nearly 40 years ago (1966 - 1971). It is not a technology that takes that long, it is our mindset that allowed this to happen.

As people we might have more than we really need. We can survive with smaller homes, cheaper cars... No society in the history of civilization ever had everything, no civilization was demanding to have what they want and get it.

The trouble is when we are ready to sell our souls so that we keep getting it even if this can hurt our future. When we willingly start hurting our future because we want something today, that we can't have, we are losing both.

We are not going to fix our trouble with our grandchildren money, but we will terribly affect their lives.

Don't we care about our grandchildren? Our Future?