For the first time, yesterday I was genuinely scared when I watched the news. There is unrest in the middle east and it seems like a domino effect, when one country falls into revolution, another one follows, then the next, then the next....We've seen it happen in Tunisia and Egypt. Now Lybia is in an uproar and there are problems in Yemen, Bahrain, Syria...places I never thought about. Places where the people have been oppressed for a long time and they are sick of it. The world has known the people are oppressed, I remember years ago that Oprah was outraged about how Afgan women were treated, yet the behavior continued until we went to war. It's surreal to think there are places in the world where people live in huts and I live in a comfortable home. Let's face it if a country isn't "westernized" or is "third world" their people are treated badly and their leaders are barbaric. China, Africa, and the Middle East are perfect examples. Now the Middle East is in turmoil, whose to say it won't spread around the world.
We have our own problems in America too. Every time I see another country in trouble I think about how gas is $3.03 (which is outrageous!) and how prices are gonna go up even more. With the unrest in the Middle East, and since we get most of our oil from over there, gas is sure to go up and I will pay a lot more at the pump. If that happens, no not 'if' but 'when'. When that happens we will see a domino effect here, everything will be more expensive because most things are related to how much we pay for gas. If gas goes up it will be more expensive for everyone to drive, including truckers, and to offset costs companies will raise prices. Food will be more expensive, it all ready is. It will cost more to buy clothes. People will cut out buying 'excess' because all their money is going towards buying gas and as a result, when they don't buy stuff, things will be more expensive not cheaper. Companies will raise prices because no one is buying their stuff and pretty soon everything will be more expensive. It will be more expensive to fly because gas is more expensive and on and on and on.
Then I saw the report about Iran sending a ship through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea. This worried me for a few reasons. First, Iran has never done that before but it seems like they don't care and are going to do whatever they want. They didn't care that other countries didn't want them to have Nuclear energy and now they have it and can make a Nuclear bomb. They already hate 'infidels' (America) and with their defiance whose to say they won't make a Nuclear missle and fire it at us? Second, the Suez Canal is right next to Israel and Israel isn't too happy to see an Iranian ship so close to their country. Iran hates Israel too. Whose to say that Iran wouldn't do something against Israel? Israel is our ally, if they were attacked doesn't that mean we would come to their aid? If that happened we'd be in another war. Third, the Medeterranian Sea is close to Europe and one step closer to America. Iran is so volital and defiant, who knows what could happen? The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
To make matters worse there is unrest in Wisconsin and Indiana and who knows where else. Unions are pushing their weight around because someone stood up and said "I'm not gonna go with you" and they don't like it. They are used to people cowering because they are big and powerful. They aren't used to having someone stand up to them and they don't like it. I don't think it's fair that a union worker can decide not to show up at work, protest, and still get a paycheck. If a person working for a company did that they'd be fired. I don't like how people can not go to work and shut things down. Teachers didn't go to work and schools had to close. There is talk about unionizing the TSA. If they did that and the TSA workers went on strike airlines would be shut down. I don't like how when workers don't like something they don't go to work and try to force companies into meeting their demands. I care because I have two children in school and if their teachers agree with teachers in Wisconsin the same thing could happen in my state and that would suck. Even worse teachers could complain about the situation in Wisconsin to my kids and because my kids think their teachers know everything they would listen to them. Its another thing that stinks to high heaven.
My husband travels for a living and is in Germany right now. He's supposed to go to Japan in March and who knows where else the rest of the year. I told him after his Japan trip I didn't want him to go anywhere else internationally because there is too much unrest in the world right now. It's bad enough that he travels in the US. If something happened how would he get home? If he were somewhere else in the world and something happened it would be next to impossible for him to get home. Plus he isn't an American citizen, he's a registered alien and has a green card. If something were to happen when he's out of the country and the US closed its borders could he come home at all?
I know my ramblings are future speculations and a bunch of what if's but I guess I'd rather be safe than sorry. I'd rather look at the world realistically and what could happen than have on rose colored glasses and be in the dark. The world is in turmoil and will never go back to the way it was. We don't go back, we go forward. We have a new normal. And I don't like what I see coming.
We have our own problems in America too. Every time I see another country in trouble I think about how gas is $3.03 (which is outrageous!) and how prices are gonna go up even more. With the unrest in the Middle East, and since we get most of our oil from over there, gas is sure to go up and I will pay a lot more at the pump. If that happens, no not 'if' but 'when'. When that happens we will see a domino effect here, everything will be more expensive because most things are related to how much we pay for gas. If gas goes up it will be more expensive for everyone to drive, including truckers, and to offset costs companies will raise prices. Food will be more expensive, it all ready is. It will cost more to buy clothes. People will cut out buying 'excess' because all their money is going towards buying gas and as a result, when they don't buy stuff, things will be more expensive not cheaper. Companies will raise prices because no one is buying their stuff and pretty soon everything will be more expensive. It will be more expensive to fly because gas is more expensive and on and on and on.
Then I saw the report about Iran sending a ship through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea. This worried me for a few reasons. First, Iran has never done that before but it seems like they don't care and are going to do whatever they want. They didn't care that other countries didn't want them to have Nuclear energy and now they have it and can make a Nuclear bomb. They already hate 'infidels' (America) and with their defiance whose to say they won't make a Nuclear missle and fire it at us? Second, the Suez Canal is right next to Israel and Israel isn't too happy to see an Iranian ship so close to their country. Iran hates Israel too. Whose to say that Iran wouldn't do something against Israel? Israel is our ally, if they were attacked doesn't that mean we would come to their aid? If that happened we'd be in another war. Third, the Medeterranian Sea is close to Europe and one step closer to America. Iran is so volital and defiant, who knows what could happen? The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
To make matters worse there is unrest in Wisconsin and Indiana and who knows where else. Unions are pushing their weight around because someone stood up and said "I'm not gonna go with you" and they don't like it. They are used to people cowering because they are big and powerful. They aren't used to having someone stand up to them and they don't like it. I don't think it's fair that a union worker can decide not to show up at work, protest, and still get a paycheck. If a person working for a company did that they'd be fired. I don't like how people can not go to work and shut things down. Teachers didn't go to work and schools had to close. There is talk about unionizing the TSA. If they did that and the TSA workers went on strike airlines would be shut down. I don't like how when workers don't like something they don't go to work and try to force companies into meeting their demands. I care because I have two children in school and if their teachers agree with teachers in Wisconsin the same thing could happen in my state and that would suck. Even worse teachers could complain about the situation in Wisconsin to my kids and because my kids think their teachers know everything they would listen to them. Its another thing that stinks to high heaven.
My husband travels for a living and is in Germany right now. He's supposed to go to Japan in March and who knows where else the rest of the year. I told him after his Japan trip I didn't want him to go anywhere else internationally because there is too much unrest in the world right now. It's bad enough that he travels in the US. If something happened how would he get home? If he were somewhere else in the world and something happened it would be next to impossible for him to get home. Plus he isn't an American citizen, he's a registered alien and has a green card. If something were to happen when he's out of the country and the US closed its borders could he come home at all?
I know my ramblings are future speculations and a bunch of what if's but I guess I'd rather be safe than sorry. I'd rather look at the world realistically and what could happen than have on rose colored glasses and be in the dark. The world is in turmoil and will never go back to the way it was. We don't go back, we go forward. We have a new normal. And I don't like what I see coming.
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