Vasu
Reddy from Chicago
vasureddy@aol.com
It is Thanksgiving time in the USA, and beginning of the holiday spirit and time in North America. Children are making Christmas lists and staring to count down for the holidays. Not much has changed since the last year and we continue to have same conditions as last year, along with the president reelected, and back in the office for the next four years.
Typically turkey has a different connotation in the vocabulary of the United States, and not just the bird in the thanksgiving dinner table. All through the year and probably in the coming months we have a list of turkey’s to look forward to, and perhaps they will keep coming until something is done in the world with both peace and pockets.
The biggest turkey we had recently was the just concluded election where president Obama won handily, and the republicans accepting the defeat grudgingly and the comments after the election in justifying the loss. This country is full of immigrants and it belongs to everyone who lives here. The privilege is of being American is just that and it makes everyone one and the same, and just because a few folks have a bit more money than the others doesn’t give them any more rights than the others. They are all equal under one roof of a massive country which embraces everyone. The elections should have thought those who believe in privilege that it is not so, and to get elected people must believe what you propose as a plan for the future, and not just four more years. Whatever actions that are taken by the president will have long term impact on all the people.
Fiscal cliff or the automatic expiration of the tax cuts and deep cuts to the budgets across the board are just around the corner and could be the biggest turkey of them all if the President and the Congress will not have the time and inclination to reach a compromise by the end of the year which is fast approaching. This may be a good turkey for all the country’s sake as the US budget needs to be balanced for the sake of all of its people and perhaps the global economy. Many financial gurus don’t see much harm in letting the country get to grips with deep cuts to the budget and increased taxes.
The mid east once again is simmering with new tensions in Israel and Gaza and could bring in new set of issues for the international community. Here is an international issue that has been an issue and will probably continue to be an issue for foreseeable future. All parties involved have been hunkering down and no one is backing off on this age old issue. The USA as usual has made its position clear, but this was the region which started off the mid east and perhaps the beginning of many of the global issues we have had in past several decades. Only the almighty may have a solution to this age old issue between the people.
vasureddy@aol.com
It is Thanksgiving time in the USA, and beginning of the holiday spirit and time in North America. Children are making Christmas lists and staring to count down for the holidays. Not much has changed since the last year and we continue to have same conditions as last year, along with the president reelected, and back in the office for the next four years.
Typically turkey has a different connotation in the vocabulary of the United States, and not just the bird in the thanksgiving dinner table. All through the year and probably in the coming months we have a list of turkey’s to look forward to, and perhaps they will keep coming until something is done in the world with both peace and pockets.
The biggest turkey we had recently was the just concluded election where president Obama won handily, and the republicans accepting the defeat grudgingly and the comments after the election in justifying the loss. This country is full of immigrants and it belongs to everyone who lives here. The privilege is of being American is just that and it makes everyone one and the same, and just because a few folks have a bit more money than the others doesn’t give them any more rights than the others. They are all equal under one roof of a massive country which embraces everyone. The elections should have thought those who believe in privilege that it is not so, and to get elected people must believe what you propose as a plan for the future, and not just four more years. Whatever actions that are taken by the president will have long term impact on all the people.
Fiscal cliff or the automatic expiration of the tax cuts and deep cuts to the budgets across the board are just around the corner and could be the biggest turkey of them all if the President and the Congress will not have the time and inclination to reach a compromise by the end of the year which is fast approaching. This may be a good turkey for all the country’s sake as the US budget needs to be balanced for the sake of all of its people and perhaps the global economy. Many financial gurus don’t see much harm in letting the country get to grips with deep cuts to the budget and increased taxes.
The mid east once again is simmering with new tensions in Israel and Gaza and could bring in new set of issues for the international community. Here is an international issue that has been an issue and will probably continue to be an issue for foreseeable future. All parties involved have been hunkering down and no one is backing off on this age old issue. The USA as usual has made its position clear, but this was the region which started off the mid east and perhaps the beginning of many of the global issues we have had in past several decades. Only the almighty may have a solution to this age old issue between the people.
So
many turkeys are all simmering at the same time, within and outside of the USA,
and there are a number of old ones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, and
the continues tensions in Syria and other places will continue to affect the
global environment and economies and certainly peace. Its thanksgiving and we sure have to find
ways to be more thankful, and not anything else.
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