It’s concerned me enough that I’ve decided that I won’t be able to buy any car, much less my dream one for my birthday this year (since I’m now finally old enough to drive). And that I’m going to be gettinga scooter and a bicycle to get around and go job-hunting in.

I already know that this affects everything. The gas prices affect the prices of everything else. Especially food, and the cost for businesses to stay running when many of their employees can’t afford to get to work anymore.
I know there are a few other crisis’ going around which affect the economy, which in turn affects the rest of us who’re feeling the affects of it all.

So yeah, it worries me. Not enough to make me scream or cry yet. But my family’s been used to living frugal because we’ve never been that well off financially. We’re farm folk in our core. I’m sure, somehow, we’ll come out fairly decent.

The irony of this is, we’d never been able to land somewhat decently back when the economy was fine and gas was only a dollar and a few cents a gallon. But somehow now that the whole country is hit by this…chaos, this insanity which makes living hard for everybody, we’ve hope again.

It’s mostly everyone else that I worry about, these days.

Now you take into account the low income I have and the circumstances of going to college and coming from a … not rich… family and its troubling to look at. I know that next year I will be attending school full time, working a work-study job, and another job at a ironically a gas station and that is just BARELY enough to get by, leaving about 30 dollars to spare… not even a tank of gas.

Something definitely needs to change as this country slowly declines to a country for the privileged not a country for all.