Web Letters: The US and Russia: Missed Opportunities

Obama is either a dreamer, or he has been smoking something. In his speech to Russian students, he stated that they were the last generation to be born in a divided world. Globalization is collapsing around our ears, and it will up to individual countries to fix their own econ0mic problems. I saw this limited version of his remarks on BBC. On their business report, it was reported that Fiat was contracting their manufacturing to China. They had better plan to sell those cars in China, because the unemployed people in Europe who used to make them can't afford to buy them. This will create more unemployment in China because they are still trying to sell to broken Western markets. No more harmony! No jobs, no money, and no markets is the news rule.

I was glad to hear that Dr. Cohen survived his economics class with his brain intact. In our time, a college education was supposed to teach you how to think!

In the first sentence, I resisted the impulse to use the term "an idiot." I will quit resisting my impulses.

Pervis James Casey

Riverside, CA