Optimistic ecomomic signs... polls indicate recovery is on it's way!

I'm a pretty optimistic person; in fact, you could say that I am quite optimistic and positive to the tune that it bothers a lot of naysayers. I, on the other hand, say to heck with naysayers anyway!

Locally I have seen quite a change in our real estate economy with homes selling in multiple offers again, and I am not talking about foreclosed or short sale properties, I am referring to median priced homes that had been taking 5-6 months to sell...just this week I was involved with one that had multiple offers within four hours of being listed, including some over asking price! Good solid properties priced right are flying into escrow here in some Southern California communities. That is a fairly reliable sign that our local marketplace is recovering and on the mend. A positive indicator indeed!

I stopped watching the news programs that preached doom and gloom and began spreading positive reinforcement that we will recover and be back on our feet again, we are Americans, and getting up on our feet is what we do...we've a history of pulling our nation up by the bootstraps...we can do it again.

I think about how horrible the GREAT DEPRESSION was, with the stock market crash, all the homeless and unemployed folks back then, only to be followed by the great dust-bowl drought when so many folks left their farms and migrated to populated areas where they begged for jobs, stood in lines that were miles long...just for a bite to eat, while leaving everything they had behind, lost farms, lost personal property and even some lost family members...but the one thing they didn't lose was HOPE for a better day.

It must have been horrible for those folks to find themselves broke, jobless, homeless, and virtually foreigners in their own land. But they did what Americans have always done, they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps (Bootstraps sometimes being the ONLY thing they had left) and they started over again.

I remember reading stories of bread lines and soup kitchens all over the nation, feeding the impoverished, as well as stories of neighbors looking out for each other, caring for one another. If anything, I hope that we all learn to be more compassionate and considerate to those who, unlike many during the great depression, find themselves in a similar predicament today.

It may sound like rhetoric, but we really are only as strong as our weakest link, and the time has arrived that we extend a hand to our hurting neighbor, and perhaps learn a lesson or two from those who came before us and survived hard times, those who experienced hard times and not only survived, but eventually thrived as they recovered and stood proudly on their own two feet, bootstraps pulled tightly!

That's what makes us responsible citizens and it is the authentic American way.

I know who we are, I have hope...and a little evidence...that we will rise again, and perhaps, with a lesson or two learned about how to prioritize and differentiate true priorities and being able to distinguish between wants and needs (BIG PROBLEM) while possessing a new and enthusiastic desire to get back to some of the basics that made this the country so highly desirable to the millions of souls who have immigrated to America during the past 200+ years.

We're Americans, we can...and we will recuperate and be even stronger; it's a part of who we are!

Click on the link below to view the CNN Money Magazine's Optimistic Economic Poll.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/29/news/economy/obama_economy_100days/index.htm?postversion=2009042911

Carol...the eternal optomist!

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