The Media did it

Just listen! Do you hear it? SWINE FLU, ILLEGALS, POOR ECONOMY, PIRATES, PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS. If you did not recognize it...it's negativity. The media feeds on our response to negativity. We panic and that beings on more negativity. How about telling people about the positives in the news. The people who saw a robbery being committed so they joined together and caught the guy before he could run away. Or, the little 4 year old boy who called 9-1-1 cause his Mom was having a breathing problem. Or, the little girl who organized the making of care packages for the troops in Iraq. These are positives, and we need more of them broadcasted to us INSTEAD OF all the negatives. I do not mean hide the negatives, but, do not blow them so far out of shape they over shadow the good things. We all know there is plenty of bad to go around. But there is always a lot of good going on that we do not hear about.
Let's take the most popular topic today, the SWINE FLU. O-M-G! It's an epidemic, right? The last epidemic was in 1918 and thousands died. So far, the world has seen one person die from the present Swine Flu. Typically, there are 250,000 to 500,000 die each year from the flu, no matter which of the four strains. This flu was thought to have come from Mexico. The government is on this "illegals" thing about Mexico. So naturally Mexico is at fault. Do your homework...most of the world's pigs are grown in the US and most recent strains of the Swine Flu originated in the US.
Now to the economy. Have you watched the Stock Market lately? It's going up, slowly, but up. Many small towns have reported an increase in business profits. We hit bottom folks and now we're going upward. Spend it if you got it. And if you don't want to, put it in the bank for others to borrow upon.
Listen folks, President Obama is not a magician. He can not make the economy better in a day, and neither can the Congress or Senate, but they are trying hard. We elected these people to do their things. If you do not like what they are doing, then vote them out next term, but don't sit there and complain, help them. Be financially responsible and support the economy.
We are a GREAT country, maybe the greatest (but let's be humble). The American people are strong and always come up with a way the survive the hard times. We will this time too. I have seen third world countries and we have NOTHING to complain about.
Think positive, DO the positives, TALK positive and pass it forward.
One last thing...turn the news off. If it's something you need to hear, eventually, you'll hear about it.