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Economic concerns. Poor business. Unemployment. It sure looks bad, doesn't it? But I also want to remind you that we have lived, survived and prospered though far worse times. For example: In 1780 George Washington said, 'We are without money; and have been so for a great length of time...' He went on to create an estate worth three-quarters of a million dollars when he died. In 1840 a traveler wrote, 'So great is the panic, and so dreadful the distress, that there are a great many farms prepared to receive crops, and some of them actually planted, and yet deserted, not a human being to be found upon them.' But we got over that problem, too. In 1857 an editorial stated, 'It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years---not in the lifetime of most men who read this newspaper---has there been so much grave and deep apprehension.' That passed, as well. In 1873 this country had a panic that shook the nation. A newspaper wrote: 'All over the country manufacturers are closing their works and discharging their operatives, simply because they can neither sell the goods they make nor borrow money to carry them until the demand for them revives.' Yet we survived that panic, too. In 1893 one man wrote of the troubling times he saw: 'I have been through all the panics of the last thirty years, but I have never seen one in which the distress was so widespread and reached so many people who had previously not been affected as this panic of 1893.' And we got through that one, too. We also got through the Great Depression of 1929, two World Wars, and even the Y2K panic. What appears to be gloom and doom is often just the focus of the media. Consider what Gandhi once said: 'When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.' I could go on and on. The point is this: Life will always have ups and downs. The secret is to flow with the tide as best we can. Complaining about what is keeps you from spotting or even creating new opportunities. In every panic, in every generation, men and women with eyes wide open saw and seized opportunities. Whether it was George Washington who went on to become president and build his own fortune, or P.T. Barnum who went on to prosper during the Civil War, the fact remains: Circumstances don't make you, you make you. This 'bad time' might become the greatest period of prosperity for you. Maybe you just have to relax your demands. In 1941 Bruce Barton wrote, 'I have been out of a job three times in my life. Each time I made a survey of my surroundings and discovered that there was work to be done, though not the same kind of work I had been doing.' Barton was a best-selling author, Congressman, popular speaker, and founder of one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, BBDO. He also became a millionaire. And don't fall for the trap that the past was better than the present. In 1907 the famous tycoon John Rockefeller said: 'People sometimes talk as if we older men lived in a day of peculiar opportunity, as if there were no chance today for a young man to do what has been done by my generation of men, as if all the avenues were closed, all the big things done. Nothing could be more mistaken. Why, the time in which I opened my eyes was a midnight of darkness, and this is blazing noon.' A word to the wise: Listen, act and prosper. There are opportunities around you. Which will you see first and act on now? This is your time of blazing noon.
House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday congressional Republicans will make another push to win approval for the pipeline by including it in a new jobs bill. He restated his party's claim that tens of thousands of Keystone pipeline jobs are to be had as part of the project. See also: Obama Kills Keystone XL Pipeline Project - For Now "Now that the president has decided for political reasons that we're not going to move ahead just yet, not until after the election ... we're going to have to find another way to lean on the Senate, to take this issue up, because the Keystone pipeline will create ... over 100,000 indirect jobs," Boehner said on ABC's This Week. But how accurate are such claims? Will there really be more than 100,000 indirect Keystone pipeline jobs? Or are project supporters exaggerating? (Photo: House Speaker John Boehner. Credit: Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images) How Many Keystone Pipeline Jobs Would Really Be Created? originally appeared on About.com US Politics on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 12:31:13. Article Index: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
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