The state of the alienation.

The old blog is getting zero traffic these days, but I suppose I can't be surprised as I haven't had a lot to say of late.

A perusal of the news shows that the world continues on it's perennial voyage to heck in some hand-borne conveyance, but really no faster or slower than it has recently. The economy of the west is in varying states of distress which has it's trickle-down effect on everyone else. The more I read about how things are done in the USA and the piling-on of stifling government regulation, the more I doubt the US will ever get back to the status it's had for the 60+ years since the end of WWII.

News that should make me feel better is that it's more and more clear to the public that Global Warming is a scam. There are two main reasons that doesn't cheer me as it should; one, Obama's crew are moving ahead to classify CO2 as a pollutant (fine the trees then!) and two, if anything, it's going to get colder.

The latter is more likely to have an impact on me than the former, living in a northern clime (tho not in fact above the 49th //) but if the Americans succeed in completely destroying their industrial base it bodes not well for the rest of the hemisphere. I've read a good deal about how the present state of the US economy came about from off-shoring all manufacturing (mostly to China) and then having some sort of credit shell game to generate the money that would then be sent to the Chinese as well as the industrial base.

Quite the house of cards, and there are some arguments against unrestricted Free Trade that can be made (and have been), but not my forte so I won't wade right in. I will however go on record as saying that in a phone poll some years ago I was willing to pay a bit more for milk if it ensured we had a domestic supply. This doesn't work for everything, but it is obvious that the lifestyles most of us expect are unsupportable in the long term. The bubble has certainly burst in the States, so we should take some lessons from that.

Anyway, not the sort of vitriol my fans are looking for, and to that I just say that it's too bad I didn't have this kind of forum when I was 20. That being said, I've stayed out of jail, so maybe that's all to the good...

If anyone is still looking here, I like a challenge, so challenge me. Work, etc. is pretty hectic so I don't have the time I once did, but I work a lot better if motivated, so YOU can take that as a challenge. Find something that pisses me off enough to rant about it, and I will.