Panic

Image via Wikipedia“The current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action,” finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of Seven major industrialized nations said following their meeting in Washington.

Really? So where is it then? If this is the best G7 can come up with then we need more effective leadership, don’t you think? With leadership like that we are in for a tough run and the truth is, we shall have to look after ourselves. We have done it before and we shall do it again. We have been the G7 the world needs. There are a lot of people out there who know so much and these are the people who will help stabilise the market. They won’t be talking about it, they will be doing it. And that’s the point of this exercise, isn’t it? Haven’t we leaned now that we actually need to co operate as a world to fix the damage of leaders who have taken us from one mess to another? The domino effect is starting to take place already. Doesn’t take long. Iceland is in trouble and that in turn is having an impact on things like properties in other countries. Iceland was doing really well but now it isn’t. A lot of people are going to get hurt by this because a deregulated market has some big black holes which just suck up money. Free enterprise is going to cost a lot of people dearly. Democracy is going to look rank and people will have a long hard look at human nature. The soul searching and reflection will happen but we actually need some good crisis management in place. We need to know what to do that will help. When we talk about democracy we generally mean freedom of speech, fair trade and reasonable business practices. We are finding out that deregulation and free market enterprise can wreak havoc. G7 needs to sound as though it means business and it needs to sound as though it can lead us. If not, we’ll talk to each other and sort it out. This is why it is so important to have leaders who can communicate honestly, openly and intelligently with each other.

Yes We Care

Image via Wikipedia“He makes me think of America the myth, the land of the free, the way it thinks of itself but doesn’t often behave,” she said.

This is unbelievable. This is different. We have got Australians who feel so strongly that they can identify with Barack Obama as the president of a country we have such a long association with, that they are prepared to go over to America and do whatever the Barack Obama campaign offices need. This is such an amazing thing. There are young ones and political veterans and they are doing it for the same reason I am doing this I guess. We need an America with a person who is approachable and who can work with the world. We need someone who can talk and engage with others. Whether Americans want that is another matter. It is their country, but surely they must be tired of Mr. Bush spending all their money overseas funding destructive initiatives? Barack Obama is popular here and it’s because you sense he does care and that he can hold a proper conversation with anyone. He doesn’t appear to be short of words or capacity to empathise. Facebook has a Yes We Care group which was founded by an Australian and it is going really well. We want to see America do well so we are barracking for Barack! Can you believe that? Yes We Care.