Now I understand...

What's the saying...it doesn't hurt till it hits home? I totally made that up I think but you get where I'm going with this?
I've been known to say in the past, "I don't understand what the big deal is with the 'economy' problems and people saying they don't have as much money these days and the news going on and on about how desperate times are for our country...blah blah blah" I would say in my udder ignorance. But now!!!!! Let me preface this by saying MY HUSBAND HAS NOT LOST HIS JOB. Now let me say...Nate comes home from a faculty senate meeting last night where all they talked about was these budget cuts the governor is enforcing on the colleges/universities in TN. in order to meet the budget this year. I'm talking millions of dollars of budget cuts just at MTSU alone and they already made cuts for this year but now they have to do it again. What does that mean? Well it means that professors are going to lose their jobs. They are even voting to allow the president Dr. McPhee the right to let go of tenured professors if needed.
Is my husband freaking out? No...at least not to my face. He truly believes that whatever happens God will guide us and take care of us - I'm holding strong to that verse (don't know it exactly) that goes "don't put your trust in man but in God alone." Where is that?
So his attitude is definitely helping me but still! I wanted to cry this morning just thinking about it. Going back to my stupid statement about the economy now...It seems very real to me this week. I heard on the radio where a big tire factory in Rutherford County is letting go of 150 employees 4 days before Christmas. It's everywhere -
At least for Nate's job - the budget cuts there are to help the state since they are so much in the deficit. Which leads me to yell out "why do we have to lose our jobs to 'bail' out the government in TN. when they didn't budget well enough all year? Or am I sadly mistaken concerning how we got in this predicament? (which can be the case!) It's just like the national government - if every family in America is responsible for budgeting their own income and making ends meet each month and paying their bills (and trying to stay out of credit crisis) then why can't our elected officials do the same for our country's budget? When it trickles down and so many people lose their job because of this problem it really makes you ask WHAT IS GOING ON????
Let me end by saying I really try to not talk about politics b/c I most often don't know what I'm talking about - so forgive me if I have said something stupid or that doesn't make sense (but this is my blog isn't it?)