Talk Back Finance

The financial crisis has had a lot of attention on the news on television and the radio and then in the newspapers. Too much of it was devoted to blow by blow accounts of the issues without any real help and support for the general public. Of course panic set in. What would you feel if you thought your money was running out of your super and bank accounts? Fortunately leaders have started to lead instead of blowing hot air. They are daring to make decisions which will stem the flow until better solutions can be put in place by people who ought to be able to manage this. It is not all bad. We have worked out we need some regulation. We have worked out we need our finances in the hands of reliable people. We have realised that some deals haven’t been deals at all, they have been rip offs. So in a short space of time we have had the magnifying glass on world finance and we have seen the details…and hasn’t it just been all in the detail? Well, yes. Things need to be built properly. Our radios have been buzzing . The announcers who have been running talk back shows have come into their own and demonstrated just how skilled they are. They have led the citizen enlightenment programmes and a lot of it has been self help through talk back. The radio announcers have sometimes organised 3rd party experts to be on hand to participate in discussions and it has been a real think tank. There are a lot of people who know a lot who get on the phone and talk. When the experts are there they put a perceptive on it and the announcers have been asking some really pertinent questions. Who would have thought finance could be interesting, amusing, entertaining and so absorbing? The best thing is a lot of ideas have come out which could be followed up. One of the obvious ideas is to encourage part time work, both to keep older people in the work force, open up opportunities and to share the financial burden . There are always people on hand then who can do the job, because more people are skilled in it and the full time workers are not over worked nor over paid. An idea, but it might be useful to us. People are not short on ideas and I think our government has started to listen. This is democracy in action. it has been good!