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Welcome to my blog n roll world, where I supply the topic and the tunes, and you supply the talk.  I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your humble host. 

When I wrote and recorded this for my Ice and Snow CD:

Billy Wants a job for Christmas
Dr BLT featuring Brian Benson
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along with this one...

Long Road to Christmas
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
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...back in the last quarter of 2008, I was focused on problem.  When a problem arises, it is necessary to identify it as a problem, in order that it may be given serious attention and significan weight.  However, if there is not a timely shift from focusing on the "problem" as a "problem" to the "problem" as a "challenge," then problems have a tendency to grow bigger and deeper. 

In viewing the "economic crisis," as a "crisis," of grand proportions, and perpetuating such a view over a more positive one involving an "economic challenge," I believe our leaders in Washington on both sides of the political isle have helped fuel a "counterfeit crisis," that amounts to a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I also believe that we should change the term "economic crisis," to "economic challenge," because the term "economic crisis" itself has a built in mechanism for perpetuating the very fear that fuels it.  This phenomenon is, above all, psychological.   Our attitude, and our strategy should be: Let's all work together, putting political differences aside to the extent that such differences can be put aside, and work together to put this economy back on track.   Putting the eocnomy back on track begins with inculcating a sense of hope in people---hope that if they work hard, it will eventually pay off. 

So, what's your preference?  Do we get through this by staying in "crisis" mode or is it more profitable, both monetarily and psychologically, to be looking at this phenomenon as a "challenge"?