Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Everybody's Disfunctional

The world seems to be having a collective case of nerves. There is no news that's not tied to governments or other groups trying to make something dysfunctional work again.
Dysfunctional is the new buzz word.
The Chinese are calling the American government "dysfunctional" because Congress and the President are not able to solve the debt ceiling and national debt problems.
Conservative economic analysts are saying that China is dysfunctional because its export-driven economy will collapse if the rest of the world goes into a new recession and stops buying so many Chinese goods.
Greece's economy is dysfunctional because it cannot possibly repay its government debts even with the handouts provided by Eurozone states and the IMF.
Of course, that makes Ireland and Portugal, and maybe Spain, dysfunctional, which will lead to the entire Eurozone becoming - you got it - dysfunctional, too.
The Arab Spring in Egypt is dysfunctional because the Egyptian army that helped the protesters succeed is now stone-walling to some degree by not getting a new constitution and government into place fast enough and is, instead, playing footsie with some of Mubarak's old cronies, who are in the transitional government controlled by the Army.
Venezuela is dysfunctional because Hugo Chavez is not well and nobody can replace him. Ditto Cuba - substitute Castro for Chavez.
I've got a few suggestions to get rid of all this dysfunction:
1. The American Congress should dip the tea partiers in a big cup of hot water while they pass a debt ceiling increase. Then, all minds should turn to the 2012 elections, because if America doesn't get a Congress and President of the same party, it appears nothing will ever "function" again. I hope it's a GOP win, but anything would be better than what we've got now.
2. If America gets its government into functional order in 2012, all China's dysfunctionality will be solved for it.
3. Shut down the Eurozone for one week, while the Euro is buried and the old currencies reappear. In Europe, the mess they had before was much more "functional" that the dysfunctional mess they've got now.
4. The Egyptian army should be sent to Syria to help the protesters there, and while they're gone, the Egyptian protesters can act with all haste to get a constitution adopted and announce election dates. When the Egyptian army has cleaned up Syria, it can come home and take back its old job of protecting the government.
5. Castro and Chavez - now there is real dysfunction if you ever saw it. Maybe we'll just have to wait them out. Nobody lives forever.

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