So today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In which the government turned the army against their own people because they were protesting/expressing their opinion in public. Many people were killed.
Something like this really puts things into perspective on how lucky we really are... we have freedom. Yes it has taken a lot of time to finally get to this place but we have freedom to do what we want, say what we want... something we shouldn't take for granted especially in this day and age when our voices/opinion/ thoughts are more important then ever.
Something to think about I guess!
On another note, have you seen Barack in action lately? This guy is just incredible
... Nope I hate his economic team but the other things this guy is accomplishing and will continue to do are truly remarkable. I'm really hoping they implement a new health care plan and I have a feeling that they are trying to do it in a hurry before things get uglier down the road and they don't have a social safety net with all the baby boomers aging. Not only that- I'm so impressed that he is trying to clean up the US's tarnished image globally- particularly in the middle east. FYI the Jack Layton was in the US to discuss our health care system. Here is the video of Barack...
"http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/04/egypt.obama.speech/index.html#cnnSTCVideo"
Something to think about I guess!
On another note, have you seen Barack in action lately? This guy is just incredible
... Nope I hate his economic team but the other things this guy is accomplishing and will continue to do are truly remarkable. I'm really hoping they implement a new health care plan and I have a feeling that they are trying to do it in a hurry before things get uglier down the road and they don't have a social safety net with all the baby boomers aging. Not only that- I'm so impressed that he is trying to clean up the US's tarnished image globally- particularly in the middle east. FYI the Jack Layton was in the US to discuss our health care system. Here is the video of Barack..."http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/04/egypt.obama.speech/index.html#cnnSTCVideo"
I've always thought that he is the right president at the right time... and the issues that he is dealing with are more global issues then domestic.
Anyways a couple cool links are below...
Seven Things Consumers are still doing: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/05/15/seven-things-consumers-are-still-doing/
Who really owns the US? The people who hold there debt... here is the list- shocked by #3
http://topforeignstocks.com/2009/05/23/top-ten-creditors-to-the-usa/
A really interesting blog- http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/about/
Interesting factoid:
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