Overwhelmed

Yesterday was daddy son day. I took my seven year old out bowling and to arcade. My son wanted Putt Putt, but the one hundred degree weather put a damper on that. So apologies for the absenteeism, family first.

I haven't been able to focus on just one subject matter in the last two days. Although I am told I suffer for ADHD, I see the immense amount of issues globally as the culprit for my distraction. In our instant information age era there are so many stories that bombard you on a second to second basis. There are so many issues of so much importance occurring on every corner of the planet that it's hard to put your finger on on to write about.

Maybe it would be a good day to take an overview of what major issues are occurring and how it effects us who practice Realism. The first and foremost is the continued global recession. This seems to be a wildfire that continue to burn across the planet. Anytime you hear of a success in the fight against it in one place, another part of the planet ignites in some financial calamity. Of course the United States credit default swap mess has been the primary focus for those across the pond who are looking for blame. Though the US credit issue has played a part in the global economic stagnation, Europe"s refusal to implement significant austerity measure is primarily to blame for it's woes.

Continued high unemployment due to now much higher taxes due to the oxymoronic Affordable Care Act are shackling small business owners from hiring. My own company healthcare plan has been targeted as a "Cadillac" plan, and the company has warned of higher premiums and more deductions. My family and I had just stabilized our financial position and now we are going to acquire  an expense we did not ask for or budget for, thank Barrack. I hope that my more liberal readers are now coming to the understanding that you cannot spend your way out of a recession as a government. The term throwing money at it has never had a positive implication, and the government threw billions at it.

Global instability came at an overnight fifteen cent per gallon increase in gas at the pump. I went to bed at midnight with a $3.04 price at the pump and woke up six hours later to $3.19. Speculation from continue threats from Iran during it's war games have caused the price of crude to sky rocket over night. American warships are headed to the area as we speak. Two Turkish fighter pilots were recovered after Syria blew them out of the sky with no provocation. Underneath the radar the Argentine government has began a new cold war with Great Britain over the Falkland's again. Argentina has even this week entered into a arms pact with our favorite worldwide arms dealer, China.

As Realist we see all of these situations in total. We cannot insulated them as say that it won't effect us over here. Thought we value our independence we understand that we are now globally interconnected. So when some F Bag wants to start a war for attention ie. Iran, it impacts us here. The Realist government would have little patience for these acts. I think I have to figure out some elegant language to describe the street term of "Calling you out" on a national level. OK Iran what to you want? Is it reasonable? If not leave the rest of the planet out of it or we will exercise our freedom to us force to keep you from affecting us.

The economic problem would have never began. In the Carter administration a program began that force banks to give loans to individuals with poor credit, under penalty of punishment. This gave rise to forcing banks to take risk, then to risk takers wanting more profits. Under Realism we never "MAKE" anyone do anything. Individuals and institutions are free to act the way they want to as long as it does not infringe on other freedom. Simple isn't it liberty has consequences both positive and negative. We as Realist see the benefit of an eye or and eye with the combination of do unto others. We need to bring simplicity back to our country, to our world.