There's too much change these days and the changes come too fast. One cannot get truly grounded before the ground erodes away.
All of a sudden we're floating...
Take global warming, for instance. We've known for a long time global warming was going to lead to some problems, perhaps severe problems, but most scientists indicated we had time to deal with it, make the changes necessary to at least slow it down, if not halt it. (Well, most of us have known all this - some, like the fundys and the neocons and the Bushites have refused to believe it.)
Now, suddenly, we hear the glaciers are melting, ice caps are disappearing, various species such as the Polar Bear are threatened with extinction; we are told that soon flooded coastlines will be the norm, Miami as we know it may disappear, we can expect hotter summers, colder winters, and more and stronger hurricanes.
The effects of global warming are no longer in the future, but are here now!
Bush just found out. He's talking tough about how Congress better deal with this problem this summer, or else! Sheesh!
But it's other things, too. The price of gas has skyrocketed in just a short time. (A friend tells me it now costs $1,000 to fill his dump truck with diesel.) The economy, thanks to G.W. has tanked and the entire world is feeling the effects of American perfidy. Food costs have, in just weeks, gone through the roof.
Today's news tells how some of our major and favorite chain stores are closing which will mean a new and different look to many malls: Bombay Furniture, Sharper Image, Linens 'n Things, Ann Taylor, and Zales Jewelers.
Other stores, such as K-Mart and Old Navy are in trouble.
The end is not in sight. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. It's enough to set one's teeth on edge.
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The world, as we know it, is changing rapidly. Hunger is real to more than it should be. The working poor and the lower end of the middle class has been in trouble for awhile but we are told our economy is at least good, if not excellent. As stores close, we will have more unemployed amongst those with the most to lose. Few have savings or the resources to get thru the hard times without real problems, just as the various safety nets are being dismantled due to lower incomes from taxes. In the meantime, some are doing very well and seem to be unaware that others are in trouble. We get the wonderful news about our economy everyday, but trickle down is really a term only old men with prostate trouble know about. College is getting to be a place where rich kids or those with good credit will be going to as their poorer peers think about going off to war. Where will they learn enough Arabic to work for the “American” companies owned by Dubai, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia?
Bush will leave a few problems for whoever wins that office next November and many will blame Bill Clinton for our current predicament. Don’t ask me how he did all that but he is and will be blamed. Even Hillary is told how bad she was for reasons I do not understand.
I expect to be told after the primaries are over, that terrorists are back in force again and only McCain can save us, because neither Obama nor Hillary has ever been a war hero. Heck (in case the family reads this), neither has ever served as Bush did and Cheney would have but he had other priorities each of the five times he was called.
It should be an exciting few years for all of us.
Bob Poris
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