The fallout up front

AN EMAIL arrived this morning from a reader that narrowed the gravely stricken economy to a single voice that clearly defines the human fallout from the official guesswork, debates and costly high level thievery of our once plentiful resources.

To quote, in part:

             You have no idea the level of despair among the workers in our factory. 

             Our 401Ks have taken a huge beating this year, which is bad enough.  Our

             sales department failed to make its goal this quarter and we  are in the process of 

             cutting  overtime for non-salaried employes.  For most of them that is a loss

             of income of $200 a paycheck.  Our outside vendors are begging for work and 

             we have nothing to give them.  

              There are real faces on this crisis and I see them every day.   Let us hope Obama

              wins and do everything we can to make that happen.   BUT...then he must govern

              and help us find a way out of this mess.  We are in deep shit right now.  People are        

              struggling that I personally know.  We need FDR.  Let's hope his ghost is still

              lurking.