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Can Things Get Any More Tense?

How can the world fit in a handbasket?

Worried about what's happening in the world?  Does it seem like everything is falling apart?  Take a look at these facts:

  • War in the Middle East
  • International Terror
  • Air travel and safety topics still unsettled
  • Stricter immigration reform demanded by many in CA
  • Nuclear concerns in the Indian Subcontinent
  • Years-long wars overseas with many American casualties
  • Concern about the environment making its way to Congress
  • Recent Keynesian economic policy
  • Economic unrest worldwide
  • African strongmen still roam loose
  • Constant State Department involvement and trade talks with China
  • Thousands of troops along the DMZ in Korea
  • Recent political unrest in Greece
  • Earthquakes killing thousands overseas
  • Serious storm rocking New York and New Jersey

...Well, if you are wound up right now, you might be able to relax a bit...This list is from1972! 

Before I hear "the world is going to Hell in a Hand-basket!" again, I'd like to remind you:   Yom Kippur War, IRA bombings, Vietnam, Hijackings, Idi Amin, Nixon's Keynesian declaration, Hurricane Agnes, etc, etc --all happened in & around 1972.   Most Americans survived.     

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I'd like to suggest we live a smidgen less tense, a bit more happy, and a bit less judgemental.  What about you? 

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