As I have read this article 3 times, I still don't understand the statement about economic shift that doesn't need a bailout. Perhaps you mean that the 3 big US Automakers don't need a bailout, however, you state later in the article how unskilled labor will be harmed, but there is a silver lining as a whole.

There seems to be a mindset in this global economy that is hopefully shifting, but I think the current bailouts are still part of that mindset that I would compare to the educated in Nigeria that are producing scams in the millions.

That mindset is that the investors with most of the money for investing seem to be only interested in investment that serves themselves and their like. Example the investment in Dubai. If the manufacturing jobs continue to disappear, the taxpayer will be become more invested in either the companies or the unemployed. Either way, the large amount of money that is available for investment won't trickle down to investing into the new skilled labor that has no job. The mindset of the investors will keep investing into economies that are with their peers.

That mindset has been trickling down the same as the trickle down economic theroy. More crime, more blame, more anger, as people are losing their lifestyles. Change doesn't come easy and the silver lining may not be what is expected by so many.

The silver lining may appear if our leadership educates and empowers a shift to saving the faith, hope, and abilities of the middle class or else the silver lining would be hope in welfare from the ones that received the bailout money.

One silver lining is the possibility of small economies growing like the SLO FOOD movement. These economies shift profits from the large corporations to smaller communities directly and are economies that the new unemployed skilled labor can support and prosper.

I have often wondered during the Presidential campaign certain things that have led me to believe that MAYBE the Power in Office, (I don't want to say Republicans because that seems to be a front.) wanted Obama to win.
First of all the money - with the DOW doubled even in it's lowest point the past 8 years there was more than enough profits by the top 10% income earners to filter much more money into the GOP campaign than the DNC raised. Are they too cheap to part with it or was it just not necessary?
Second - the Palin (populist) nomination. For so many reasons I believe that was a calculated purposeful goof or just really blatant arrogance. After watching the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute's latest press conference on CSPAN, superciliousness attributes are alive within the (I can't call them conservatives because truly they are not) desperate for a purpose wannabe populists.
Third - John McCain's campaign was not about a centerist canidate that ran in 2000. The campaign did not have quite the Karl Rove touch or else Karl Rove has gone over the edge because the GOP campaign seemed to have inspired the opposition to the Rush Limbaugh type of rhetoric.
Reason why Obama was slated to win. Alan Greenspan had once made a remark about how there is a large bubble in the middle class that will pop and there will be a scream heard around the world. The reason to make the bubble and allow it to pop is so that Americans will become happier to be poorer and accept immigration easier when the aliens are on the same level economically. A general plan of the top 10% to curb anarchy and their so-called peace plan for after the battle.
There are more reasons, however, we will see what events happen in the near future and how we will be tested.
Perhaps there is just the anger from the "Good Ole White Boys" group that has found that the world is changing away from their principals and they are lashing out. Afterall, with our BFF, the internet, all voices can be heard.

A good start for Obama would be to educate Americans with suggestions as to what they can do to involved with recovery.  We are a nation of immediate gratification.

Thanks for the reminder of what to expect and hopefully there will be the majority that will go through the stages rather lingering on one phase for too long.

Don't you think that there should be another article of what to do after the elation effects for those that voted for Obama?  How do we stay connected?

This is so touching!  The teachers are doing a great job in Palm Beach County Schools!  Thank you Damon!

Wonderful, refreshing, and exciting to hear young voices that have experienced life with Sarah Palin as a politician.

Thank you!