You can only blame your leaders so much….


…..What bothers me so far about the build up to the election is that we have seemed to have back-peddled into cults of personality rather than in to studies of solutions.


It almost seems that the politics have been removed from real world considerations because those real-world considerations are plagued by unknowns and muddled and hard to talk about.

Yet, the sense is that if we don’t come to grips with these realities, we stand to lose everything….so we find ourselves arguing over nonsensical things while the realities tend to slip through our grasp.

Nothing can be spoken of in simplistic terms. What is the real state of the economy?
Are we poised to really slip through the worm hole into oblivion or is it not as bad as Ted Turner and George Soros thinks?

We don’t know.

Why? Because the media has largely painted on an optimistic canvas. They are still talking as if we are not in a Recession because of the overtones of the words and how things can degrade into self-fulfilling prophecies. Nobody likes to talk about the real stuff; it is off-putting. We don’t like to be talked about China owning us. Yet, is it not for all intents and purposes true?

Think about it.

If you don’t make anything that anybody wants and you sell scrap and buy manufactured goods, don’t you qualify as a banana republic?

Take any subject you like: Healthcare?

Americans like to think we are the best in terms of healthcare.

Actually, we stand at number 37 among the advanced nations.

We are probably ahead of Bangladesh but Bangladesh has no pretensions of being a super power.

Last night, on PBS, they did a special on Health care around the world. None of the countries had a population where anyone ever went bankrupt or was not covered for their healthcare expenses.

Don’t like that area?

Okay, let’s switch to the environment.

Where does America stand?

We all know that America made a mockery of the Kyoto Environmental meetings by not supporting the findings.

Perhaps that might not be so bad if we didn’t account for five percent of the population and twenty percent of the pollution.

Why is gasoline over three dollars a gallon?

Might it have something to do with Venezuela hating us. Or the fact, that Iraq has not come back to full production. Or that the American companies make a profit if the oil just sits in its company’s tankers.

Or might it have something to do with the fact that our leaders are oil people and that the oil people are not sharing the burden but divvying up the profits.

And of the money paid to buy a gallon of oil, a lot of it goes back to the country that supports terrorism, our friends, the Saudis.

Take the overview: There is something wrong with the picture any way you look.

And we are not doing anything about it.

Does that say more about us or the problem?

Figure it out.

Maybe it’s time to read the Constitution again about what constitutes reasons for Impeachment.

I don’t know.

But I am depressed and hurt that we don’t show more moxie than we do.

Les Aaron