The Aughts

Thu, 01 Jan 2010 18:50:24 GMT

Have you seen, heard or thought about what to call 2010? Is it "twenty-ten" or "2000 and ten" or something else? The discussion reminds me that we never established a cultural norm for what to call the decade now ending.

We had the „50‟s, „60‟s, „70‟s, „80‟s, „90‟s and then…nothing. The "Zeroes?" No. The "Aughts?" I think not. Regardless of what they were, we ought to learn from them.

As a nation, we ought to have saved more and lived less on credit. (Need to remind Congress on that last point.) We ought to have purchased lower-priced homes and cars, less fast food and grown more of our own food, and fretted less. We ought to have tightened airport security and taken more seriously the threat of militant Islam. We ought to have bought Google and Apple stock and sold AIG and Citi. We ought to have taken better care of ourselves and our neighbors.

What‟s past is past. How ought we live and work and act in 2010 and the Teens to follow?

I believe that we‟ll see a solid business rebound but a more conservative, once-bitten-twice-shy approach to many things in our lives. I believe that inflation will become a problem within a year, that we‟ll see gas over $4 a gallon by 2011 and Democrats will retain smaller majorities in both houses.

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The Aughts