You know, I never understood the meaning of “The Only Thing We have To Fear is Fear Itself”. I thought I did, but not until I experienced my first real recession as a professional and as a father. Now I know.
With all this Doom and Gloom around the economy and the current state of world affairs, I came across this paragraph from a president:
“In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone…”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
It’s funny how history sometimes repeats itself. How the challenges we faced so long ago, seem to be so close to everyone once again.
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