When the cows come home

There are farmers producing corn for feed, there are farmers producing corn for cars. But what happens when we run short? Who gets the corn. The cows or the cars? If the cows don't the price of beef rises - after it falls. It falls because many cows will need to be harvested at the same time; creating a surplus. When the balance between cows and corn equals out then the price will reflect the amount of milk/beef to the demand.

This is kind of what is going on today. But it is not just car fuel that is helping to raise inflation, it is a number of things hitting all at once. We've got many of our fields overrun with floods, extreme heat in some areas and cold in others. We've got people crying wolf just to hear their voices and people wanting taxation on the use of our natural resources hindering our future energy production....and more.

But what can we do? For those of you caught in the middle of this mess. Who are paying $80 to fill their tank and spending $100's of dollars more each month on groceries, don't panic (yet). Assuming prices will not fall and the prices you see now are the new regular price, it is time for you to stop looking to someone else to fix your situation. You live in your home, you buy your own food (we hope), and you have a brain.

What we've done in our house is meal planning. We consolidate trips when driving (because it makes sense anytime not just stress time - because it saves time). STOP watching the news. All this does is worry you, sets ideas of failure and despair, if you watch you will find news is more like gossip. Unless it is real. But a lot of this junk is just fluff trying to fill in time.

People who want you to worry about all the things you are doing -pretty much everything you eat or touch will kill you, if you don't say a million words to a baby before they are 1 they are destined to stupidity for the rest of their life (that is why we are who we are - our mother was silent - come on!). If anything this economy is the economy of opportunity!!

Come up with a job, come up with a business. It is time for the cows to come home so get ready and prosper - no matter what the inflation or recession numbers may be. America is still the land of opportunity and it is still the wealthiest in natural resources. You can succeed don't let any tell you different!