Difficult Economic Times the new WMD

Weapons of mass destruction, or better known as WMDs, were a permanent fixture on newspaper headlines and television newscasts when we were told that these WMDs were going to cause us great harm if we didn't act immediately. Today's weapon of mass destruction is the heightened awareness of our economy, our Difficult Economic Times or DETs. In fact, the DETs have become more devastating to America today than the WMDs ever were. I mean, we never actually seen the WMDs, did we?

Add to the fact that the government has spent a great deal of tax payer money on fighting the DETs much like they did fighting the WMDs as further evidence that we have a new threat on our hands. But are the DETs more real than the WMDs or just more damaging?

For a cattle farmer in Oklahoma to a waitress in Atlanta or even a shoe salesman in Seattle, the DETs are the equivalent to land mines in their every day life. These landmines, however are tricky, as only one in every ten are charged, you see the media drops these little bombs in mass, laying them across our daily path. The fear alone of stepping on one of these mines, however, are enough to cause widespread panic that eventually effects everyone.

The sorry angle to this post is that the DETs are the result of friendly fire hitting us where it hurts the worse, the pocket book.