Still concerned about the same old stuff, war in Irac, Afganistan 27 Canadian Soldiers returned in bags, trouble on hold in Lebanon which could flare up again, chickenfluepidemic on hold, world hunger nothing new...global warming and all the stuff that concerns us all in some way.
The USA has managed to spend about 300 Billion Dollars on Iraq. Nothing resolved so far. Whoever was nuts enough to believe a democracy could be forged out of this place. The best we can hope for is that they beat the crap out of one another in a hopefully short civil war...democracy in the region? Forget it.
The US has an estimated 37 Millon People living in poverty..nothing resolved here either. I was astonished to learn that one of the poorest US cities is Detroit Michigan, that's on the other side of Windsor Ontario which we consider to be a well to do place.
The Golf coast aftermath of last years Katrina-Hurricane disaster is being attacked but there are many bottlenecks. I think it's doubtful that this can be corrected. After all much of the region is below sea level and it does not take a genius to figure out what the resuls of another severe storm can bring.
Large parts of Texas may eventually face the same problem some day soon. Something to do with draining the swamps, as well as lowering the groundwater levels and therefore creating a situation where part of the country is now below sea level.
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