Where Ignorance is Bliss, Tis Folly to Be Wise?

Nobody Wins

I was GOING to try to find an uplifting story for today…what with all the continuing bad news and all..you know, I was lectured today by a lady friend who just couldn’t stand people who didn’t have a cheery attitude about life. (NO doubt trying to tell me something)

So I was determined to find a story of good will to write about…one where the nobody wins… and I remembered that I read about a woman and her twin, who survived the Nazi, Dr. Mengele’s horrible experiments done on her, when she was a small child, and I thought: That’s it! I’ll write about that. What a inspiration!

And then I couldn’t find the story. If you saw my office, you’d know why.

Tonight, on the news, some black man from Kansas City, “just lost it” and started a speed chase down 50 miles of St. Louis highway, in which he just started shooting people, and cars, and cops. They finally caught him just up the street from my house.

Well, not much inspiring there.

And then, the worst news, I thought, for the area..a city just across the river from Ferguson, is going to die a slow and bitter death:

United States Steel Corp said it would consolidate its North American flat-rolled operations and temporarily idle its operations at Granite City, Illinois, citing weak demand and falling steel prices.

The company is issuing notices to 2,080 workers at its Granite City Works facility in Illinois.

U.S. Steel’s shares rose 2.5 percent to $25.32 in early trading on Wednesday.

“Global influences in the market like reduced steel prices, unfair trade, imports and fluctuating oil prices continue to have an impact on the business,” the company said.

A stronger dollar has made imports cheaper and steel from China has been flooding the U.S. market in the past few quarters, hurting prices and leading to job cuts and plant closures at a number of steel producers in the United States.

U.S. Steel announced the permanent closure of its Granite City Works coke-making facility in January and cut 176 jobs.

That is a LOT of jobs for that small town. And this is happening all over the country, and the stocks market soars.

This is exactly what only Donald Trump is talking about. Our politicians have done irrefutable damage to us all, with their ‘globalization’ schemes, and poor trade agreements, and it’s been going on for decades. BOTH parties are in on it.

So, maybe by next week I’ll find that uplifting story, in which a nobody little girl, fought hard and lived through the atrocities of Auschwitz.

Or maybe I should just stop watching the news….

“Where ignorance is bliss, tis’ folly to be wise.”

March 25, 2015 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | Globalization, Uncategorized | Economy, globalization