Herding Cats

Give and Take?

It has been six months since the Obama "revolution." We are still in Iraq but have finally begun to withdraw. The war in Afghanistan has been ramped up to keep the Taliban at bay but consider what an invasion of Afghanistan did to the Soviet Union. It just bankrupted them and caused a revolution in their own country. Though it seems we are more like Russia than we thought. Obama has a czar for this and for that. Mind you czars were PRE communist revolution so one cannot say because Obama has named "czars" it makes him communist. On the healthcare reform front, it looks like that may be a wash-out. I cannot see how making people buy junk insurance is going to keep the cost of healthcare down. It just hurts the poor who can't afford it and if they don't they lose their tax refund which is probably the only time they get a little extra money to catch up on the bills. I know I've been there. Actually am there now. Afterall, as of today, July 1, I am a minimum wage earner. Haven't been one of those since 1984 when I made $3.35 an hour at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, TN as a tour guide and later as a weekend cashier for the laser light show. Coolest job I ever had, though I do like what I do at the newspaper now and $8.00 an hour is somewhat better than $3.35.

So our lives haven't changed too much. Our political situation is getting better I suppose. It just takes time and the path to change isn't always a straight line. There are a gauntlet of lobbyists, insiders, amd politicians ready to stab it in the back. More later.