Unemployment stays stuck near 8 percent. Still, employers say they can’t find the trained workers they need. They want immigration bars let down so they can recruit from overseas.
The overhang of unsold houses with unpaid mortgages keeps construction depressed.
Greece is again on the cliff-edge of bankruptcy. So is Spain. The stock market sank.
North Korea warns all and sundry that it will use its nuclear weapon if the world isn’t good to it. Iran remains a threat to Middle East stability. The price of oil is still skyhigh.
So what burning issue captures the attention of the world’s most powerful nation?
Same sex marriage.
For crying out loud. Why would vice presidents and cabinet secretaries choose to use their bully pulpits on such a minor social issue when genuine problems affect the lives and welfare of millions of men, women and children and need solving in the worst way?
Surely the answer is the topic is good for headlines, produces thoroughly predictable reactions and requires no study.
Besides, it distracts the public and allows people to forget for the while what’s important in this besieged world of ours has been pushed off stage. Again.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
