I am signing because Chris is a friend.
A little ssarcasm is O.K. Mr. Kingsley. We need some levity
when the issue at hand is so serious. You are correct about
the 'overweightness' in America. The health care costs are
astronomical because of people's poor eating habits, lack of
exercise and so on. You're also right about a possible
revolution on our soil, especially if the economy doesn't
improve. In the meantime however, we do need to concern
ourselves with the condition of other states (nations) as the
global situation, politically and economically worsens.
This report is right on target. It is said that when the U.S.A.
sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Well, I would
suggest that, in the current global economic crisis, the world
coud easily contract the flu. If countries continue to implode
politically and economically, the fallout will be pervasive.
The fiscal health of this planet will not be resolved for a long
time. The peoples of certain hard-hit countries, for lack of
adequate food, housing and income will rise up; there will be
unsettling revolutions. All of this will reverberate back onto
the U.S., obligating us once again to at least maintain, if not
increase our 'charitable' contributions to international aid.
America cannot continue to 'bail out' here at home and
abroad indefinitely. There will be a breaking point.
With unpredictable unrest across the globe, and because of
the economic recessionary trend, we may be facing greater
worldwide peril than anyone imagined.
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