I agree this is a huge issue that we have with current information overload. I call it “tripping over the obvious”.

With the economy I see that is what is happening and nobody seems to see it. What goes up most go down? We, the USA, have had a great time since the end of the Great Depression and World War II. We earned a lot of good will throughout the world. The strong USD $ was backed by faith in the USA.

Now that faith has shifted to Asia. First Japan in the 1980’s then they had economic issues, but now Vietnam, Taiwan, China are the golden stars of the world.

Do we really think we can make $60,000 a year income when the average pay in the world is $5,000 a year? A lot of hungry people looking to become ‘middle class’ outside the USA. The USA is LESS THAN 5% of the world population, can’t people _see the obvious_ that eventually it will balance out?

Freedom, education measurements, and open markets have all been in decline for decades. Our government only seems to know how to grow, get bigger, new rules, new laws. Who removes the broken and defective laws? Who cuts the fat in the spending?

If people think that these (July 2008) are bad economic times, they haven’t seen ANYTHING yet!

Great post. Don’t trip over the obvious ;)

Your comment about cutting the fat in spending is spot on, of course. Waste in any form — whether it's governmental outlays or personal time squandered on useless nonsense — is a bane to personal, social, and economic growth and development. (Unless, of course, you happen to be paid by that part of the government.)