Yesterday I watched Fox News. I think that more of 80 percent of the comments in the different programs were against the President Obama health plan. None government can resist a sustained attack of that magnitude. The power of the television is something that we can not imagine.
That campaign might lead the American society to a more difficult situation.
I remember that some years ago a friend told to me why he voted by the proposal of an important leader in that moment. The leader was beginning his period of government and my friend said to me: a political defeat at the beginning is something very difficult for a leader. I am not according with his proposal but for the mentioned reason I will support him.
I never forgot the concept and the loyalty of my friend. He preferred to sacrifice his position and to help his other friend.
Perhaps the President Obama might need to make some concessions. In the politics sometimes it is necessary going back one step for advancing after two steps.
pablorafael_gonzalez@yahoo.com
domingo, 23 de agosto de 2009
domingo, 16 de agosto de 2009
Obama is a modern and smart leader
Is Obama Socialist? I do not believe it. I think that Mr. Obama is a modern and smart citizen with a solid preparation. The main characteristic of the modern leaders is the capacity to accept and manage new realities.
The fear to the change is something normal in all the societies. Moreover, there are people and groups of pressure that reject the change. Those groups normally defend their own interests.
Usually the interests of those groups are in contradiction with the general interest of the societies. The insurance business is one of the most important in the financial field. They are one of the first sources of liquid resources in the economies. The insurance companies fiercely defend their part worldwide.
The mission of the politicians is to conciliate the interest of the people but thinking first in the interest of the majority.
I believe that Mr. Obama is thinking in the best interests of the American people. I decided to write this article because I saw in TV his meeting with the citizens in a school of Colorado the past Saturday August 15. And I had the impression that he has the reason in regard to the changes in the health care system.
When President Franklyn D. Roosevelt began to develop his New Deal Plan some people thought that Roosevelt was implanting a Socialist program. But that was not true. Roosevelt was only struggling with the great deficiencies created by some avaricious interests that provoked the Great Depression of the thirty years.
Mr. Obama is advancing in a new road that might be very positive for the US.
pablorafael_gonzalez@yahoo.com
The fear to the change is something normal in all the societies. Moreover, there are people and groups of pressure that reject the change. Those groups normally defend their own interests.
Usually the interests of those groups are in contradiction with the general interest of the societies. The insurance business is one of the most important in the financial field. They are one of the first sources of liquid resources in the economies. The insurance companies fiercely defend their part worldwide.
The mission of the politicians is to conciliate the interest of the people but thinking first in the interest of the majority.
I believe that Mr. Obama is thinking in the best interests of the American people. I decided to write this article because I saw in TV his meeting with the citizens in a school of Colorado the past Saturday August 15. And I had the impression that he has the reason in regard to the changes in the health care system.
When President Franklyn D. Roosevelt began to develop his New Deal Plan some people thought that Roosevelt was implanting a Socialist program. But that was not true. Roosevelt was only struggling with the great deficiencies created by some avaricious interests that provoked the Great Depression of the thirty years.
Mr. Obama is advancing in a new road that might be very positive for the US.
pablorafael_gonzalez@yahoo.com
lunes, 3 de agosto de 2009
A radical change in the economic theory
The concepts of the book Running Out: How Global Shortages Change the Economic Paradigm, (Algora Publishing, New York 2006 and 2008), represents a radical change for the economic theory. The main idea of the book is that the world is facing an unprecedented situation: the global scarcity of natural resources, especially water and petroleum.
The phenomenon already has begun to be visible in many regions of the planet. An oil producer as Indonesia, for example, has exhausted their reserves and had to retire from the OPEC recently.
The oil reserves of the North Sea are in critical situation; the same happen in Mexico and in the United States. The situation of the water reserves is not best. In many regions of the world the water scarcity is already a reality.
The book assures that capital will not be the main scarce factor of production as has been until now. In the near future the natural resources will be the scarce factor of production and this means a complete change for the traditional economics concepts.
The overexploitation of the resources and the contamination of the environment are the causes of the situation.
Only the development of new sources of energy less contaminants, the massive construction of green cars and a policy of reforestation and conservation of the forests that still survive might diminish the impact of the problem. But it is necessary a global effort.
www.pablorafaelgonzalez.com
The phenomenon already has begun to be visible in many regions of the planet. An oil producer as Indonesia, for example, has exhausted their reserves and had to retire from the OPEC recently.
The oil reserves of the North Sea are in critical situation; the same happen in Mexico and in the United States. The situation of the water reserves is not best. In many regions of the world the water scarcity is already a reality.
The book assures that capital will not be the main scarce factor of production as has been until now. In the near future the natural resources will be the scarce factor of production and this means a complete change for the traditional economics concepts.
The overexploitation of the resources and the contamination of the environment are the causes of the situation.
Only the development of new sources of energy less contaminants, the massive construction of green cars and a policy of reforestation and conservation of the forests that still survive might diminish the impact of the problem. But it is necessary a global effort.
www.pablorafaelgonzalez.com
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