Convergence-5/20/10
As noted in the PodKast section, I’m starting to recover my voice following a pernicious infection that took my vocal chords and turned them into weapons of unique dissonance. The following is a list of bullet points that resembles the show prep done prior to one of my long form podkasts/broadcasts.
There’s an ugly convergence in progress:
1. My skepticism about the attempt to prop up the Euro is proving to be correct. Greek riots and strikes make it clear that the austerity measures agreed to were agreed to by leaders who wouldn’t have to participate in them, and are out of touch with the citizens they’re supposed to be representing.
2. The economic problems are doing a hell of a job distracting the world from South Korea officially acknowledging what the world already knew: the North Koreans committed an act of war by sinking a South Korean military vessel back in late March. So the Asian markets are plummeting as a result of both economic and geopolitical worries.
3. Our President is currently like the tree that falls in the forest with no one there to witness same. He may be inhabiting the White House. He may be attending state functions. He may be concerned about issues domestic and abroad. But none of those things matter if he doesn’t take forceful and possibly unpopular stands.
We’ve got a leader. Currently, however, the feeling is that we’ve got no leadership, and this is one instance when the feeling is the reality.
4. The ecological disaster continues in the Gulf Coast but runs back in the pack, behind the headlines du jour.
5. In our zeal to KO Osama, we’re choosing to placate the poppy farmers in Afghanistan rather than cut off supply to the heroin users in Camden NJ, Compton CA, and the Bronx, NY. Add your own inner city to the list. This isn’t a war on drugs; this is a war on drug users.
6. Jobless claims unexpectedly rose this past week. So the high school and college graduates entering the work force are going to stay or move back in with mom and dad, who may well be looking for work themselves. And the unemployed can’t pay into the social security trust fund or medicare, so to you baby boomers, wave goodbye to the safety net you paid into and thought was your birthright.
And on and on and on.
Not having a voice is incredibly frustrating when the truth needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
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