The Home Stretch Election 2008

Image via WikipediaI was hoping that the home run on this American election would be able to be completed without the smearing, jeering and pot shots. I hate it when you get a political campaign which just deteriorates into mud slinging and it is a feature which became prevalent in the Bush/Blair/Howard era and it was not worthy of us. To have our politicians do nothing more that take aim and fire insults and nonsense to each other is just so undignified and immensely irritating when you know that we can all do better. The political discussions which have hitherto occurred have been interesting. They were interesting during the French campaign too and the fact we are interested here tells me how much thought has gone into the campaigns…and how much Australians have woken up. We do take a proper interest in world affairs now and we see that as important if we are to work with people. Please don’t let this deteriorate into mudslinging. It has been so good to watch a tough campaign be fought all along the way. Low level thoughtless nonsense will neither further nor help anyone.You cannot fly like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.

The World Market

Image via Wikipedia“This created this huge bubble of debt and we’re seeing the consequences today,” Mr Tagliaferro said.

Absolutely. This hasn’t happened overnight. G7 doesn’t seem to have helped much, but then they are politicians. G20 might be better since we actually have the finance ministers together and far more countries involved, so there is some chance there will be some useful decision making. Hot air is not helping. Panic is not helping. We need a plan to help us help the world. In crisis you need a crisis management plan and you need your strategies. You need to be stemming the flow, applying the first aid and then gathering data so that you can treat the problem effectively. This article is the closest I have found to help. What we seem to be lacking is advice and suggestions to all the citizens of affected countries so that each day we can be helping the situation. Watching the stock go down, watching Wall Street, Iceland and Europe flounder is all very well. We need to be more practical. We are all jumping for joy the petrol prices have come down but that may well create some problems and in any case that hasn’t registered at the pumps. Why not? It did when the barrel price went up. So , the financial gurus have probably been consumed with the intricacies of last week. We need some of them to stand back and advise us.