What Will Happen In 2017

What Will Happen In 2017

Because Donald Trump will be our next President everybody is wondering what will happen in 2017. Half the people in the United States and around the world worry there will be social disaster, major military involvement in countries outside the US, trade wars with countries like China, isolation from our democratic friends in Europe and other countries connected to the United Nations and a roll back or major change to programs like Global Warming, Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc., etc., etc.

The other half of the people in the United States and around the world see 2017 as the best year in a long time. Stocks will go up, regulations will be reduced creating more American jobs, the rich people will get richer which will trickle down to more jobs for the middle class, trade countries will have to trade on an equal basis, policies that restrict growth in many small businesses and industries will be changed to make it easier to do business, the Federal deficit will be reduced by changes to many social programs, policies that restrict the output of coal and oil will be changed so that the country will never have an energy problem and the military will be beefed up so America will be better safer.

WOW, on which side of the pendulum you swing, 2017 will either be a bad year or a great year. 

I'M CALLING BULLSHIT!!!!

Trying to figure out if I'm going to have a bad or good 2017 based on what Trump and the Congress will or might do ignores the fact that I have control of my happiness. I have no doubt I'm going to have a wonderful 2017.

I have my health, I have a loving wife, I have great friends and family, I have enough financial security to travel sometimes, eat wonderful food and live in beautiful Southern California. Because I’m retired, I also have time to write, read, play, exercise and watch mindless TV.  

Trump and the Congress might make my fabulous life a tiny little better or worse, but they will not have any affect on my happiness. 

2017 Will Be A Great Year Because I Will Make It So!