It is interesting to note how the mills of the gods slowly grind to smooth the irregularities of the problems here at home.  We never get right down to issues and solve them quickly and efficiently.  We have so many problems that we look elsewhere to solve our problems - the solutions are abroad. 

We cannot agree on a health plan for all Americans.  Too many have no health insurance at all and the programs we have are in trouble themselves.  But, if you take your problems overseas, you will get solutions that cost 70 to 90 percent less.  Of course, you have to discount the discontinuity of service if something goes wrong.  As most of us are embroiled in trying to upgrade a safe, sound and affordable system of universal health care here in the U.S., there are the individualists who think they can get a better deal by getting their cosmetic surgery 'over there' and practice 'tourism medicine' hoping to get a better deal than in the expensive hospitals and practices on our own shores.

We cannot agree on the efficacy of electing Mr. Obama.  A great many patriotic Americans think he is not American enough for them - although the country came out four-square for him.  So, instead of solving the political problems here at home, we look to those elections that trouble US in places like Lebanon now and soon in Iran.  We THINK we cans straighten out the Iraqis and Afghanistanis by showing them how to vote with ink on their thumbs. That is the ticket - if we can get them to vote they will surely vote for things of which we approve.  In other words, Vote West.

Since we settled our election and the Bushes are just now being seen around and about, we are involved with the elections near and far for their outcomes have a lot to say about the health of our political economy.  While our economic problems are just about as bad as or worse than they were in the first great Depression, we are spending good money keeping bad businesses up and running.  I have never been able to see the rectitude of buying a bad product in order to keep that company in business in order to help me.  Something is wrong in this equation. It is good to help the poor misguided businesses gone bad =/= it is bad to help the poor who have been looted by the practices of those businesses.

Long ago we left the Garden of Eden and entered a dusty, dry and

unpredictable world.  That was long ago but we are still looking to other places for solutions to our problems, thinking they must have the answers because their prices are so cheap.  As someone I knew once said; "It don't' work that way."