Posts Tagged ‘US Economy’
The G20 – What It Really is About

As I watch on TV the highly varied “protester groups” demonstrating on the streets of London, I am reminded that today indeed is April Fools Day for the whole thing has the air of a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. What do Anarchists, Green Movement, Peaceniks, Old People who have lost their savings, people who have lost their jobs, people who blame the Bankers…have in common ?
What remedies would suit them all ? Is there a universal panacea ? The answer of course is no because most are just wanting to go back to how things were 18 months ago and the “usual protesters” are hacked off because the economic downturn has made them irrelevant. For them, its a bit like Hunt Saboteurs suddenly finding out that everyone has given up hunting with hounds – it’s bloody tough having both your job and raison d’etre taken away from you…