I have a few minutes so I am going to post a few random thoughts that I have been having.
1. I only have a few more weeks left in Provo. My missionaries were moved to a different room in the MTC last week. We are on the 5th floor and from the windows you can see all around the city of Provo. It is a beautiful place! I am going to miss it.
2.I am really excited for General Conference. I have felt a lack of direction for what I want to focus on for the next couple of months. It feels like I am sitting around waiting for Med-School to start. Which I guess is exactly what I am doing. I am excited to hear what we need to focus on as church and as individuals.
3. The economy of our country amazes me. I am taking Econ 110 this semester and I learning a lot. I am not sure how good I am going to do on the final but I didn't take it for the grade. I just wanted to learn basic economics. If there is one thing I have learned while taking it, it is this, no one really knows what is going on. There are trends and statistical likelihoods, but no real facts. We seem to blame people a lot for what is going on in our economy. We blame people for controlling to much or we blame people for not controlling enough. From what I now understand, which is admittedly very little, our economy is so huge, well over 13 or 14 trillion dollars, no one really knows what is going on. To me its kind of like a puppy growing into a dog. Sure, when you first get it he was cute and fun to play with, but then he gets bigger and bigger until you can't control him any more you can try and fence your garden, or train him to go in your yard, or not rip off your windows, or not tear apart you porch but really he is going to do what he wants when he wants. That was the first analogy that came to mind. Sorry.
4. I am married to a beautiful woman that is smarter than me, funnier than me, more spiritual than me, a better cook than me, etc... I am a happy man and life is good!
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I can't believe there is a new post. I am alone in Stanford and I thought, I'll just check the blogs, and for some reason I checked yours for the first time in a while and to my surprise! Thanks for the analogy by the way, it puts the economy into terms that I can understand.
To me, the economy is more like a cow that busts out of the barb-wire gate and trots out into the pasture to nibble on some fresh alfalfa, all the while trailing a strand of broken barbed-wire with a fence post attached where there is a birds' nest dragging along behind, and as the young birds hatch they open their mouths to get food from their mommy but instead there's a coyote panting over them, licking its lips, ready for a tasty treat.
THAT'S what the economy's like.
About what to do until med school starts: have some stinkin' fun this summer. It'll be your last stretch of carefree time, like, ever.
i miss you and i love you.
You're right, Laura is amazing!
You should have a good economy discussion with Tyler - he's just finishing up one of those series of lectures that your dad bought on the economy. I agree that Laura is such a catch and we are glad that you found someone totally worthy of you!
I think the economy is like a puppy too -- only a very sick puppy that is being kept on life support with injections of expensive medications that are being financed with borrowed money from the Chinese.
The government is telling you the puppy is just fine -- why not treat yourself to a nice afternoon at the mall and stop worrying about the puppy? When you ask them why the puppy isn't yapping or wagging his cute little tail anymore, the government thinks for a second and says "well he's just a little slow today but I'm sure that he'll be fine soon."
That's not all. Wall St. is also begging you to save their poor sick puppy so they can keep it for themselves when it gets better, because the puppy will grow up big and strong as long as the rich guys can take care of it.
Of course, you don't get the puppy at all for even one day, even though you saved it's life with your money. But don't you want the puppy to have a nice home with the big traders and bankers who know so much more than you, you middle-class peon? Those student loans that you will be paying off for longer than most mortgages? Forget about any help for them. To qualify for government help, you have to lose billions, not thousands.
I personally think the puppy needs to be put down, for everyone's good, so that we can raise a heathy, happy new puppy. Sure, we'll all be sad and grieve. Wall St. loses a puppy but learns a valuable lesson. And that sick dog was a liar anyway - really, what good is a dog that bites your hand and blames you for not being rich already?
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