What's Better and What's Worse In The News

*What's Better In Peru?
  Peru is gowing its economy at the average rate of almost 7 per cent for the last five years while socialist Venezuela languishes at 2.1 per cent. Peru's president, Olllanta Humala, appears to be growing too. He came from a family that would discuss Marxist economics at the dinner table. His father led an outdated movement that proclaimed that only the descendants of Incas should run Peru. Mr. Humala showed his modernity by participating as a soldier in a military uprising to protest the corruption of President Fujimoro. The uprising stopped peacefully, and Mr. Humala was later pardoned by the government. The Peruvian president has gradually embraced business much to his father's horror. He has even gone to America to meet a group organized by J.P. Morgan to assure the group of his acceptance of a free market. Since then, he has been business friendly, and Peru's economy and people's standard of living have improved. Humala almost mis-stepped by purchasing a national share in a refinery, but walked back when business leaders objected, and his popularity declined. It was said that even the working classes in Peru were against any policies that would kill the goose - the free market- that laid the golden egg - money and more prosperity. Would that Americans understood the same.
*What's Worse With Obama's Spying?
  Of course our dear leader knows nothing about what is happening with the scandals in his adminisrtation. Of course, we're idiots, and he's so smart. Today, a caller to the Rush Limbaugh Show told Rush that he was developing a business that builds an exhaustive data bank on every individual in America. Every kind of information that is legally available is mined - credit ratings, foreclosures, legal involvement, even your friends mentioned on your facebook and other programs. This man plans to sell this data bank to people so that when they call your number, your complete dossier appears on their computer screen before you even answer the phone. This allows them to sift through all the information on you so that they can develop a personal hook to get your attention. Say you have a passion for fishing or golfing. They would use this to grab your attention and try to entwine themselves around you. This kind of information would be especially useful for salesmen and would make cold calls much warmer. Also, these data banks can be used at places receiving calls so that before the person answers your call, there is your complete dossier on his computer screen. He can decide from that how best to approach you or even if he wants to talk to you at all.
  The inventor of this program believes that all the data the NSA is collecting on us is not only being used as meta-data by the NSA but that the particulars are being gathered by Obama's minions to build an exhaustive data bank on every American citizen. This could include what party you support, how often you call political parties, and how much you contribute as just the tip of the iceberg. Obama will then give this information to Demonic-crats running for office whom he likes. This will make him a kingmaker much like Putin is with Medvedev and like Bill Clinton desires to be with his wife Hillary.
Peter Nickerson, MS,MSW Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Chip Morrison of FM.97, Gainesville, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.