WHO GETS TO RULE THE WORLD, THE G-20?

WHO GETS TO RULE THE WORLD, THE G-20?

(Jim Acosta, Brianna Keilar, CNN)

(Alison Crawford, CBS News, Jill Mahoney)

(Dale Robinson, Barry Carin, David Bosco, Frazer Chronicle)

 

This is a really good one, it’s so bizarre and the thinking is so flawed that normal people would call it what it really is…..a joke that is played on the entire world. The G-20 is made up of Financial Ministers and Central Bank Governors from 19 nations, plus the European Union…..gee, they can’t even add right, or don’t know what constitutes a nation…..because where I come from a European Union is not a country, it’s a group of European business people that have vested interests in making profits.

 

The G-20 has been around since 1999, and superseded the G-33, which itself had superseded the G-22, and the G-7. Seems to be a lot of G’s to me. No matter, one theme throughout the G’s history was an effort to build a sustaining prosperity, for who I’m not sure, and worse, I don’t believe that the current or former G’s had a clue of how to build a sustainable future either.

 

The G-20 was created as a response to both the financial crisis of 2007-2010 and to a growing recognition that key emerging countries were not adequately included in the core of global economy discussion and governance.

 

Member nations are South Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and Australia, and the afore mentioned European Union.

 

These 19 countries represent the following regions of the world; Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Eurasia, Middle East and the Oceania’s. China and India have by far the greatest populations, China, 1,339,742,852, and India, 1,210,193,422, while Saudi Arabia and Australia have the smallest, 27,123,977, and 22,328,632 respectably.

 

By this time I’m sure that you’re wondering where I’m going with this subject, and…..I’m glad you would ask that question. The answer is as easy just like a zucchini Martini, all the meetings, all the planning, and all the huff and bluff has amounted to -0-, zip, nada, butkus. There is little change in the overall financial picture in the world today.

 

A BUNCH OF CRETINS

With little exception these people that meet yearly, sit and mull over the financial issues of the day with absolutely little understanding about what makes the world tick! It really isn’t their fault, after all, how can most of these people relate to not having enough money for a pack of cigarettes, a six pack of beer or enough money to buy their babies milk.

 

Some of the decisions that these people make, all in the name and attitude of making things better financially not only for the world, but for their particular regions mostly offer financial rewards for a thin slice of their countries population.

 

Wages won’t go up, living conditions won’t improve, health care will remain stagnant and basically unattainable, and educating the young will, in many instances will remain only a dream. There is genocide in South Africa, pitifully low wages in Mexico, China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea…..yet each of these countries are members of the G-20.

 

The sitting members of this year’s G-20 are almost interchangeable, with the exception of the sheet, that the guy from Saudi Arabia wears, or the towels that the India fellow has, or funny little hat that the representative from India wears.

 

They are politicians, financial ministers, advisors, and country leaders, a perfect reason to exclude each and every one of them. It’s been the same type of people since the G’s began back in the late 1990’s. Change is needed, change is necessary…..or maybe the G’s should just go away, buried in their unsuccessful meetings of the past 14 years.

 

These world representatives really aren’t doing anything except gaining face time on the evening news back in their native countries. And today there is a shadow that hangs over the summit, of course that shadow of Syria and really the entire Middle Eastern part of the world.

 

President Obama won’t be attending the G this year because of disgruntled and ruffled feelings between the president, and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. It seems as if Russia and the United States, missing their cold war rivalry of some 40 years would like to re-establish those hawkish attitudes and feelings.

 

OLD WAR HAWKS GATHER

It’s okay now for the U.S. to hit Syria in a military strike, Senator John McCain has endorsed President Obama’s wish to enter into a military confrontation with Syria, what kind of campaign is anybody’s guess. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s the Iraq scenario all over again…..where is Colin Powell when the country needs him?

 

The connection between the G-20 summit and Syria is hard to follow…..not really if you observe the sign-posts. There has been, and there is a hell-of-a-lot of money to be made off of war, and as my dad used to say, “war thins the human herd.”  There is talk of punishment for the Syria government’s use of chemical against their own people.

 

Wait a minute here, will there be any collateral damage involved, will women, children and old people suffer like they always do when either a country or collation of nations decide to mete out punishment for a perceived transgression?

 

Personally I’m kind of sick of this masking of reasons to enter into a confrontation because there is a perceived act to harm civilians…..in somebody’s country. Now there seems to be a galvanizing of political parties here in the United States with regards to agreement on this military strike thing…..and it worries me, and I don’t like it.

 

FINANCIAL GROWTH IS KINDA LIKE A FREEWAY

This year’s G-20 will be held in Petersburg, Russia and mixed in with the financial issues will be Russian President Putin’s warning to the West on unilateral attack on Syria, the line is not in sand, I think it’s in concrete.

 

Talk of financial growth is…..to me kind of like a new freeway here in Wisconsin, it looks good, does create jobs and money, travels well…..but the rotting surface roads stay the same…..in ill-repair, and in the end you’ve just created more roads to repair that never seem to get repaired.

 

 

If the financial growth of the world is really, really to become more than just a silky dream, and rhetoric, there needs to be a game plan. More people need to be drawn into the conversation, real people, people that have experienced the harsh realities of being poor.

 

Spanking Syria for whatever action was taken by the current regime against their own people might seem like the best thing to do…..but it’s only a perception, and really is a knee jerk reaction to an already pathetic situation…..and needs to be handled diplomatically.

 

This crap that if the United States does not act in a forceful and decisive manner regarding the Syrian situation is…..well just that, a load of crap. Do the war mongers of the United States really think that other countries or the so called terrorist groups of the world will view the U.S. as weak…..I seem to recall another time, and another country that felt that way…..that was Japan on December 7^th 1941, and we all know what the final outcome there was.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!