AMLO and Obama

This is eerie.

Next year is the last one of a long Mayan count; and we have two politicians that sound like Messiahs.

Obama: "Look at the statistics. In the last few decades, the average income of the top one percent has gone up by more than 250%, to $1.2 million per year. For the top one hundredth of one percent, the average income is now $27 million per year. The typical CEO who used to earn about 30 times more than his or her workers now earns 110 times more. And yet, over the last decade, the incomes of most Americans have actually fallen by about six percent."

AMLO: "Una vez elaborada esta constitución moral, debemos hacer el compromiso de fomentar estos valores mediante todos los medios posibles. Introducir en la enseñanza la educación moral, darle toda la importancia que tienen materias como el civismo, la ética y la filosofía; propagar virtudes y destacar ejemplos positivos en los medios de comunicación. El propósito no sólo es frenar la corrupción política y moral que nos está hundiendo como sociedad y como nación, sino establecer las bases para una convivencia futura sustentada en el amor y en hacer el bien para alcanzar la verdadera felicidad."

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If the world is going to end, like my buddies have been telling me since I was nineteen years old or so, I expect to see signs, like thousands of twenty somethings filling the plazas of Tunis, Cairo, Tripoli, Athens, Rome, Madrid, London, Paris, New York, and Chilpancingo.

I've seen that all.

Tighten your belts, we are heading for a wild ride; I hope we survive.

Go on kids: If you don't save your own world, you won't have kids to give the world to.