A Bright Future, or a Stormy Horizon?

In Bob Herbert’s article “A Fire in the Basement,” Herbert discusses many problems that plague present day America and shows what was better in the past days of our parents and grandparents. In part of his essay he reminices about the America that used to be, soon after the end of World War 2, showing us all the good that came from great leadership and excellently crafted programs to strengthen America economically and morally.
While discussing about the postwar and how everything was seeming to go well, he then goes back into his main argument about how America is doing to poorly now. What I think Herbert is trying to prove in his article is that even though times are hard right now, with good leadership and perseverance, we will be able to come out of this recession and other ill talked about topics like the war in Afghanistan. Even though he is saying what we can do in the future, I think he is also reminding us readers that it will take time. Time that will seem like an eternity at first, but when this is all said and done with, we will be glad we took that time, no matter how long it might have taken.
I think Herbert is stepping in the right direction with these paragraphs he uses as a motivational build to the American people. Though he does have a lot of negative things to say throughout his article, he also has some of the most motivational words one could read, you might have to read it a few times to understand the whole concept of “A Fire in the Basement,” but when you do, I am sure you will be just as enlightened as I am.