From “Front & Center”, by Bud Burrell
As we watch the current regulatory paralysis of our elected representatives, the breakdown of our securities regulatory bureaucracies, and the schizophrenia of key elements of our economy, any logical mind is going to be driven into a “If, then” form of logic. We have major components of our economy that are in catastrophic disarray, ranging from all sides of the energy sector, to job creation, to health care, and to a polarized political process. The resulting variables provide for a potential meltdown of the most durable economic and political system yet devised in world history, and the disruption of one of the most beneficent, generous, tolerant and kind countries of World history, not perfect, but a hell of a lot better than second best.
As we face crises on every front, from our monetary system, to our political structure, to our economic models, to our fundamental health care, we see more focus on opportunism than on solutions. We have elected leaders who are more interested in furthering their political agendas than in preserving democracy and capitalism. What will be the ultimate outcome of this n-dimensional societal train wreck?
Three topics dominate our current environment, those being a breakdown in the financial stability of the US, to a religious fervor driven crusade to have this country unilaterally take on the Carbon Dioxide levels of a world they don’t control, to a drive for a universal health care system that has been shown to not work in all but one place it has been tried, that being Switzerland. As we look at how each of the problems is being addressed by our current government, we see potential outcomes associated with the options, which on their own legs can’t stand. [entire post]