Japan has suffer unbelievable death and destruction. This will have a enormous impact on the world economy in many different ways. The true lessons of the triple devastation will take years to understand. There should not be a rush to judgement on any of it.
Libya is a continuation of a chain reaction civilian uprising that have and are occurring in the middle east, north Africa and southwest Asia. While this intervention by the UN and NATO was done to protect the citizens. Do not not think there was other reasons Britain and France were pushing it. I.E. Shorter and more secure source of oil for Europe.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Change world and changing country
People, the world is changing. The events in the middle east and Persian Gulf are showing that people are wanting freedom and democracy. This is not a Islamic revolution. However it is also saying that we can maintain the same policies with them. China is a economic powerhouse, as well as India.
Our education system is falling behind other nations. We are weak in science and in math education. Education is not the constitutional responsibility of the federal government. This country is going broke, not just because of the recent bailouts and buyouts, because we have a social security, medicaid and medicare system that are unsustainable. We have politicians that are cowards in facing up to this. We have a health care system that financially unsustainable for the public at large. Recent legislation to make changes either do not go far enough to fix it or actually make it worse.
Our unions the bastion of workers rights, collective bargaining and workplace safety; have slowly lost power and influence since the early 1950s. They have been unwilling and/or unable to change with the times and still use work stoppages and strikes. They are dependent on government to maintain their place in the work place.
Business requires American consumers to spend, however developing countries and even China has a bigger and expanding consumer market then the United States. So does not it make sense to move manufacturing capabilities closer to them. Many unions invest their workers pensions in various companies, making these pension funds and their manager stockbrokers and not just employees. Business needs to power of change. To look at what business practices and/or product and product line meets the needs of consumer and allows for minimum necessity to change things or end up with a product that is suddenly not in demand due to economic and/or world situations.
The issues going on in Wisconsin and Indiana are not going to result in major changes and in fact are meaningless. These budget continuation with budget cuts are meaningless and do not mean nothing. While there is a need for reform in all agencies on how we do business in the federal government. There is also a need to look at all government agencies on not just reform, but need, duplication of services and constitutionality and relevances.
There is no demons or bad guys to blame, there is enough blame to go around. It does not matter if you are a liberal or tea party member. Innovated and Critical Thinking leader with the courage to say what is not popular, but what it is necessary. I do not see anyone or group who is taking the lead to do is what is required.
Our education system is falling behind other nations. We are weak in science and in math education. Education is not the constitutional responsibility of the federal government. This country is going broke, not just because of the recent bailouts and buyouts, because we have a social security, medicaid and medicare system that are unsustainable. We have politicians that are cowards in facing up to this. We have a health care system that financially unsustainable for the public at large. Recent legislation to make changes either do not go far enough to fix it or actually make it worse.
Our unions the bastion of workers rights, collective bargaining and workplace safety; have slowly lost power and influence since the early 1950s. They have been unwilling and/or unable to change with the times and still use work stoppages and strikes. They are dependent on government to maintain their place in the work place.
Business requires American consumers to spend, however developing countries and even China has a bigger and expanding consumer market then the United States. So does not it make sense to move manufacturing capabilities closer to them. Many unions invest their workers pensions in various companies, making these pension funds and their manager stockbrokers and not just employees. Business needs to power of change. To look at what business practices and/or product and product line meets the needs of consumer and allows for minimum necessity to change things or end up with a product that is suddenly not in demand due to economic and/or world situations.
The issues going on in Wisconsin and Indiana are not going to result in major changes and in fact are meaningless. These budget continuation with budget cuts are meaningless and do not mean nothing. While there is a need for reform in all agencies on how we do business in the federal government. There is also a need to look at all government agencies on not just reform, but need, duplication of services and constitutionality and relevances.
There is no demons or bad guys to blame, there is enough blame to go around. It does not matter if you are a liberal or tea party member. Innovated and Critical Thinking leader with the courage to say what is not popular, but what it is necessary. I do not see anyone or group who is taking the lead to do is what is required.
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