Now that the two nationally broadcast love-ins known as the party conventions are through, it’s time to get down to some serious questions. Now that both parties have done their utmost to show that they are exactly the same as the other guy (and girl!), that they will both change the Status Quo, and do it without changing your life, salary, savings and future, it’s time to ask the four toughest questions that the incoming Man will have to deal with, and how they are going to make some tough decisions that will affect everyone on the planet. Before you vote, make sure you know the answers to these, because we are going to have to face these decisions in less than a handful of years and the route we choose will affect everything. It doesn’t really matter who has the best personality, its time ti answer some tough questions. Talk about change – check these subjects out, and see how your life is going to change.
Foreign Policy: It’s time we realised that we have to change what we are doing: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Muslim, Southern ex-soviet countries.
The real reason that these areas are a powder keg is purely based on US policy. The Americans need oil, and a way to transport it to friendly ports. It also happens to be a part of the World does not agree with the deity that we pray to. Now that we are going to lose a dangerous religious fanatic from power (And I’m talking about the current US President), we can start to have a real discussion on this issue. This isn’t about religion, it’s about the future of the West’s way of life. Only a true moron believes that the position we have been in since 2001 is about saving a downtrodden people, or expanding a political way of life to those that really, really want it. Future historians will on back on the last 20 years as a repeat of the Spanish invasion of South America. Even if some in power actually believed it was about the Catholic faith, and not about Gold, we all know differently, now. Just as we do about this Coalition of the willing, or the War on Terror, or the Axis of evil, is about controlling the last place on earth where there is a ton of oil that is easy to get at.
It’s time that we looked Israel straight in the eye, and tell them that it’s time they looked after themselves. They should not have our support as a given in global political circles. It’s time for them to realise that they – like everyone else – have a hard core section of their population that only live in the past. It’s time we gave the Palestinians the opportunity to share that land, and not be forced into a ghetto. All they want to do is work, so give the m the shot.
It’s time we got out of Iraq, and let everyone choose how they want to live, under which God, and receive money from us to let us take and transport their oil. There! Everyone is happy. Well, not everyone, but a few hundred million more than there are now.
The Economy: We need that oil, because we are about to run out of money.
In 2010 the Bush tax cuts will expire, the country will be in recession, the Credit crunch will be biting deeper, bank stocks will be worse less and no-one will be able to afford new taxes.
If we are also paying the current oil prices, this will cripple what is left of the economy. It’s tat simple.
The Baby Boomers: Retirement En Masse begins in 2011.
We will be heading very quickly toward only four workers to every retired person. They will have no savings, they will rely on Social safety net. There won’t be one. If we can’t get those workers to work, the recession will deepen faster than we can get the economy out of the death spiral.
The Environment: 1n 2012, Kyoto expires and the World will come knocking for the next American answer.
North America ignored this agreement, but they will be looked upon as the ones that forward the next agenda and, if they don’t, the rest of the World will ostracize them. The planet will be looked upon as something with an expiry date, and the super wealthy of the World will be blamed. Now, that is a foreign policy position you do not want to be in.
In short 2012 could be the same as 1931. This change that has to come ‘at some point’ in previous administrations is coming to roost right now, and the next guy is the one who will have to look after these four issues. Now that’s change. Who’s going to do it?
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