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America’s resilience is under assault. A sense of powerlessness is chipping away at the Americans’ historic conviction that our destiny can always be commanded with sheer determination and will.

There is a sense of helplessness prevailing in our spirit. It is even reflected in the current presidential election. Each contender is offering their spin on a sense of order — and don’t forget hope as well.

Republican John McCain is promising an experienced hand for this frightening time. Democrat Barack Obama is promising bright and shiny change.

Americans are getting more and more discouraged by the continuous attack of dispiriting things. The American spirit ingrained in all of us is conditioned to expect things to get better…but so far that hasn’t happened.

Case-in-Point:

• Floods are engulfing Midwestern river towns.

• Food is becoming scarce and expensive because of increased consumption in growing countries such as China and India and rising fuel costs.

• Fuel prices are skyrocketing creating financial burdens for many, many Americans.

• People living in Washington, D.C. and surrounding suburbs repeatedly lose power for extended periods of time due to mere thunderstorms.

• In California people are warned to use less water due to the unrelenting drought.

• Need a vacation? The weak US dollar has made traveling abroad out of reach financially for many people.

• Want to just kick back and watch a good show? A writers’ strike halted your favorite TV show production for half a season.

• Your hardcopy newspaper delivered to your doorstep may soon be a relic of the past in this Internet age.

• You can’t even count on escaping into the world of sports anymore. Baseball’s Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are accused of enhancing their accomplishments with drugs.

• Basketball referees are accused of cheating.

• There’s also the annual Tour de France coming up again and there is sure to be something corrupt about the Summer Olympics, too.

• Wildfires are blazing out of control again in California.

There have been times of comparable hardship for America. The economic woes of the 70s, the Iran hostage crisis, The Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Depression of the 30s…and more.

All of these periods of hardship were followed by optimistic periods where the American people were blessed to have their confidence restored. Will this happen again?

It’s important to note that each of these periods was followed by a change in the party controlling the White House. This is obviously what is fueling much of what we are witnessing in the presidential election.

This is the 21st century, right? We must have the evolved knowledge and intellect and technology necessary to fix these problems…right?

Perhaps…maybe this is the purpose of the 21st century — a big and necessary reorganization of things long taken for granted.

There’s a new paid blogging “kid” on the block that bears a closer look. It’s called Get Paid From Us.

One thing I liked right off the bat was their blog approval system. Instead of submitting your blog and getting lost in an unknown queue of who knows how many other blogs (and waiting what may be days or weeks for approval), you can get busy right away. In fact, Get Paid From Us seems to have gone out of their way to make their system user friendly and easy for bloggers. This is appreciated and has a lot of merit from a blogger’s perspective.

Upon closer inspection, their system is pretty unique. It’s not like any company I am currently blogging for, that’s for sure. If you’ve already got Adsense set up then this seems like it would be a very quick and simple company to get started earning money with. Even if you don’t, setting up an Adsense account isn’t hard. You should probably do this anyway! There are lots of different earning possibilities with Adsense.

Here is their model in a nutshell:

1. Sign up
2. Start blogging
3. Once you’ve started blogging in their system, Google’s Adsense adverts will automatically start generating in your blog.
4. You split your Adsense profits 50/50 with “Get Paid From Us”
5. That’s it!

If you’ve got a blog with good ranking and good traffic, I could see how this would be a lucrative paid blogging option. It has a lot of potential and possibilities.

This seems to be an interesting company that any blogger who is doing sponsored posts should take a few minutes and investigate. Nothing to lose and potentially lots to gain!