Stone table and a lamb.

Obama speaks of people making sacrifices. And with a looming depression, it seems likely that it will indeed be the case. It is easy to spin making sacrifices as something noble. But if history is any indication, Nobility rarely is willing to sacrifice anything other then the peasantry. Lacking true nobility in our country, we have people who are simply wealthy in their place. And although no longer called the peasntry, we still have a horridly underpaid and over worked lower and middle class that basiclly acts as the peasntry. My question is what is going to happen when sacrifices have to start happening? Some of the wealthy may actually be willing to go along, but i feel that the large majority won't want to let go of any of their money and will fight tooth and nail to keep it. If the middle and lower class is making sacrifices, there is not too much they can do about it other then protest, petition, and acts of civil disobedience. However to me this seems unlikley. I feel like the working class knew this was comming because the were watching their friends, family and collegues get laid off in droves while in washington people were saying nothing was wrong. Unfortunatly the words of the politicions were not reflecting the conditions of peoples lives. Some people still rember what things were like in the great depression, and many of those people passed some of those lessons on to theif children. So I have a feeling that deep down many people are prepared to do what needs to be done to pull the country back on to its feet. However the social and economic reform is going to be hard to implement if our country is still spending billions of dollars on wars over seas. Which brings up another question. There is a job shortage going on already. We cant really afford to keep occupying forigen countries. But what will the troops do once they get back home? These men and women are going to come home and not be able to find work. How are these people going to reintegrate into society if they cant find jobs?