Friday
February 12th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
It’s Friday, you ain’t got no job, and you ain’t got sh*t to do…
It’s Friday night, almost Saturday, and I finally mustered up the strength to write another blog post. A lot has happened since the last time we spoke. The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from his post and handed power over to the Egyptian military. All this happened live on television. While I applaud the Egyptian public’s uprising against an oppressive regime, I’m not gonna jump on the bandwagon just yet and say that this social media revolution was actually “televised”. In all honesty, the first thought that comes to mind is Animal Farm. Time will tell how this situation plays out…But I digress, b/c that’s not even what this blog post was supposed to be about.
While US leaders scrambled to comment on the effectiveness of US intervention in a sovereign state (yes, Sarah Palin is a leader, though not a very good one), American 15-29 year olds have a 21% unemployment rate. Elected officials and business leaders have suggested growth in the technology sector can pull the US economy out of this economic crises. While at first glance it appears that this is a promising strategy, one begins to wonder how technological growth can spur job growth when a key aspect of technical advancement is the replacement of humans in favor of machines. Furthermore, technical advancement leads to outsourcing, which can further inhibit job creation in local economies. Perhaps a better strategy would be to focus on economic self sufficiency and local development. Fortunate for us 15-29 year olds, there are quite a few jobs that can’t be easily outsourced or replaced by machines…too bad volatility in the US economy has led to a very real fear that the dollar will face a significant decline in the future. 
Get your hooker heels ready!
White House
February 3rd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
So today we finally got to a place where I could actually write something. I don’t really know what this blog is about. I hope it will be about honesty and creative expression. I think it will be about what’s going on around our world, which may or may not be limited by my often narrow perspectives on life. Who knows? Who cares? Today President Barack Obama and his colleagues at the White House put in plans to remove the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, from office. I am in no position to comment on the wisdom of this. I admit that I haven’t been following Egyptian politics for the past 30 years. But what I do know is that the United States government is currently experiencing an economic crises, the unemployment rate is approaching 10%, and the country is engaged in multiple wars in the Middle East. I fear that continued engagement in countries other than our own will distract our political leaders from investing valuable time and resources into actually bettering the lives of the average American. We’ll see what happens…
