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We are living in very interesting times, with irresistible, invisible forces swooshing past us as we turn and totter in disorientation.
Almost makes sense to stop reading the newspapers and stop watching the blatantly biased
TV news shows.
But then, how would we know anything at all?
A few late observations:
Health care reform is too important to be done at 100 mph. Obama, thankfully, is losing his public support, and will need to proceed at a considered pace (which he claimed to embrace when he was running for the office). The need for health reform is clear. The approach should also be clear; make your case by clearly explaining your bill before you send it to a vote, and allow citizens to digest what you are proposing. We citizens don't trust you politicians. 1000+ pages that the congressmen haven't read? Are you STUPID? We aren't.
The stock market is being manipulated by the biggies, and they are less and less concerned about the public reaction. High-frequency trading, where Goldman Sachs can see a buy order from someone else before the rest of the market can, then buy the same stock, drive the price up and sell it to the original someone at a profit, in less than a second (true, true, true), is shameful. What is more, it is legal, which makes the whole system shameful. And if we have just uncovered this bizzaro world, what else don't we know about? I don't have a solution for this one. Maybe you can find a solution in the Matrix, which is something else I don't understand.
Afghanistan and Iraq. No, make that Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq may have some chance of some form of democracy because it has progressed politically in the last few centuries. Afghanistan hasn't progressed at all. It is stone age. Why would they accept Western ideas? Let's put the shoe on the other foot; would you accept Sharia law? Of course you wouldn't. You would resist for the rest of your life. Welcome to an unsolvable problem.
So, fellow travelers, love your families, appreciate the good things in life, take your meds and keep them eyes open.
Almost makes sense to stop reading the newspapers and stop watching the blatantly biased
TV news shows.
But then, how would we know anything at all?
A few late observations:
Health care reform is too important to be done at 100 mph. Obama, thankfully, is losing his public support, and will need to proceed at a considered pace (which he claimed to embrace when he was running for the office). The need for health reform is clear. The approach should also be clear; make your case by clearly explaining your bill before you send it to a vote, and allow citizens to digest what you are proposing. We citizens don't trust you politicians. 1000+ pages that the congressmen haven't read? Are you STUPID? We aren't.
The stock market is being manipulated by the biggies, and they are less and less concerned about the public reaction. High-frequency trading, where Goldman Sachs can see a buy order from someone else before the rest of the market can, then buy the same stock, drive the price up and sell it to the original someone at a profit, in less than a second (true, true, true), is shameful. What is more, it is legal, which makes the whole system shameful. And if we have just uncovered this bizzaro world, what else don't we know about? I don't have a solution for this one. Maybe you can find a solution in the Matrix, which is something else I don't understand.
Afghanistan and Iraq. No, make that Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq may have some chance of some form of democracy because it has progressed politically in the last few centuries. Afghanistan hasn't progressed at all. It is stone age. Why would they accept Western ideas? Let's put the shoe on the other foot; would you accept Sharia law? Of course you wouldn't. You would resist for the rest of your life. Welcome to an unsolvable problem.
So, fellow travelers, love your families, appreciate the good things in life, take your meds and keep them eyes open.
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