Greetings..now read this America (USA)...

Thanksgiving and ...happy November, December,Christmas,new-year, and mostly, happy commencement of the new team in Washington in January..

This is part my laundry list of the
most serious troubles to solve, and to solve soon or at least get started on it
or it may be too late,chaos may ensue whatever that means.

*Financial mess and appropriate actions to
provide support where needed

*Get out of Iraq,just get out...provide
some support using NATO & UN

*Get a proper and useful health coverage
situation going, Federal directed,State administered

*Repair the infrastructure, highways,
railways, waterworks,bridges,dams,hurricane sensitive areas, forest regions,ship
passages,ports

*Proper border control and points of entry
support for immigration and customs related
needs

*Fix the increasing unemployment situation
(some of the implementation of above items will help considerably)

*Fight crime,gangs in ghetto areas, drug
cart ells, mafia

Other topics of some urgent attention may include improvement of education, less emphasis on sport stars and more attention to scholastic improvement, graduate more doctors, less lawyers, more nurses, less financial promoters, consider reviving the peace corps for a few years.

If short of ideas on how to solve some of these problems, look elsewhere to find some guidance. Canada too has serious problems, but at least our health care system appears to function without putting people into bankruptcy because they happen to have a hearth attack. This is no joke.

One day, returning from a trip to New Orleans in January to Orlando I became ill, pneumonia. One afternoon in the hospital, breathing some oxygen ended up costing me $2,500. This is not unusual, more typical than you think, surely a rich country like the USA should be able to do better than that.

America North...

Looks like things have settled down o bit. The Canadian elections long over, the new same old government is in place, still a minority situation in this country.

It is hoped that this new, government will last a bit, while the Liberals attempt to find their feet and a new leader. Anybody but this washed up NDP Rae I hope. clothesline watercolour by permission of the artist Diana Holditch,copywright

Too bad about S.Dion, he may have been OK but to talk about new tax ideas during an election especially something like a carbon tax... is deadly.

New Government, this time the Democrats rapidly getting their stuff together to commence governing early in the new year, probably not a moment too soon. Bush2, the shrub, had a meeting in Washington with 20 heads of state...the G 7 and sympathisers..supposedly all about the money fix bailout. Not sure how much the decider can decide these days. Can this guy do any more damage than he has caused already. Time for change.

USA

• Since we are closely linked to the USA economy we should pay close attention as to whats happening there. The actions in Iraq and Afghanistan are having a terribly negative effect on the economy.Usually, during times of war or conflict by the shear nature of an upturn in production capacity,will effect the economy..upturn in employment,support for the troops and the government in power are usually seen as a result of focusing on whatever war activity the country finds itself in. Not this time.
  Whatever it takes to change the mind set of Americans, time,effort, the appropriate philosophy and substantial funds( borrowing from the future) must be directed to accomplishing the tasks desperately needing attention in this country.
  * End the conflict in Iraq
  * Restructure the failure of large industries ( Auto, Steel, Agriculture, Petrol)
  * Create a Health Insurance system that works, look at the Canadian model
  * Immigration issues and border control
  * Hurricane and other natural disaster prone items,Forest fires, Earthquake readiness
  * Refocus on international relations that make sense,start with the Americas.

These are a few of the main problem areas as I see it. Changes in employment or unemployment numbers will follow the efforts. Perhaps another limited term peace corps group could be created, this would be far more beneficial to America and the world than new bomb delivery systems or star war creations.

USA

This is an important day in history.
Hopefully Mr.Obama will be elected as the future President of the USA and along with the Democratic Congress some long needed changes will soon be in the works:


Just to name a few:
Ending the nonsense in Iraq, I find it hard to call it a war
Health care affordable for every citizen, a right of citizenship in most civilised countries
Cleaning up the financial mess, extremely serious present condition
Immigration, not Even in the news these days, mayor topic just a year ago
Federal input to repair the infrastructure, bridges, highways, hurricane damage
Relations with long neglected regions of the world, particularly the Americas