Hey People, How About Some Good News!!

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Do you ever feel like everything you hear on the news or read on-line or in a newspaper is bad news these days?  You know, oil prices are skyrocketing, food prices are close behind, the US economy is going into a recession, the stock market looses 400 points, US Foreclosures top the 1 million mark, the financial markets are in disarray, and we need to save the world from global warming before it burns up into a smoldering ball of gas, fueled by all those Listings that aren't selling.  Add to that a couple of wars, a few other possible wars, a political system that in our opinion is 50% dysfunctional.  The Left won't do it if the Right wants it and visa verse. And nothing ever really gets done...or does it?  We think it does but it could be so much easier.  Someone told us a long time ago that success breeds success and we found that to be true.  But the opposite is true as well.  If you hear too much bad stuff you think it's all bad stuff after awhile.  We are paying $4.50 a gallon for gas and the oil companies are getting rich, but Federal and Local Government makes more money on a gallon of gas than the oil companies do.  Simple economics 101 teaches the laws of supply and demand, but we don't want to increase supply, yet, world wide, it's impossible to decrease demand for many many years until we develop other sources of energy, and we will in time. And now in the Real Estate business, things are looking pretty bleak all over the country, but are they actually that bleak everywhere? You would sure think so if you looked at a headlines today.  All this bad news we are bombarded with 24 hours a day has to have some effect, wouldn't you think. The US economy is depending on consumer confidence and their ability to spend.  The recent stimulus package this administration did had a profound positive effect on spending but the stock market went the other way.  Go figure!  People are scared.  People are scared to buy a home today because they think the bottom is still a year away...well that's what  one article said that we read yesterday. Problem with that is you never know when you hit the bottom until you are well passed it, but if you go on-line you'll read how bad it is.  And that has effected some markets that should other wise be just fine, like Seattle because of a strong local economy and a buyers market that is the best its been for a long long time.

My grandfather came to the US from Norway in 1895.  He was 17 years old, came from a very remote area above the Arctic Circle and didn't speak English and was only "kind of" homed schooled.  Now talk to us about being scared.  He made it however.  Started a new life and lived in Tacoma for about 75 years, owned a house and had a small retirement that got him and my grandmother by.  He was a gardener and loved what he did. We live in the best country in the world.  Our living standards are at the very top, and people here have more opportunities today than ever.  US business is more creative and progressive than ever, and the American people are the most generous people anywhere.  We can go on and on about how lucky we are to be living in America. Yet all we see are the bad things, the problems. Will we always have problems, yes we will, will we do some things wrong, you bet, will we learn from our mistakes, most certainly.  So why do we have to hear how bad everything is all the time?

I think we need a Good News TV Channel, and a Good News Web Site and a Good News Newspapers.  A place where we can go to feel good about who we all are.  Where we can read and hear about all the good things that are taking place every day. We should all be proud of what we have accomplished and what we have had to endure to get where we are today.  Can we do better, absolutely, and most of us want to always find a way to do better.  The News Media needs to stop sensationalizing everything that happens around the US and the world.  They are looking for every angle they can to make a story bigger than it is so their ratings are better.  Come on people, our glass is not half empty it's way more than half full!