I had a busy weekend, with a study group, lunch with one son one day and the other the next, a concert, and a drive to the airport to drop off the son who will be in London for 3 months. Lots of transitions and last week was the anniversary of my mother's death and funeral service. I will catch up emotionally probably on Thursday, when I see my therapist for the monthly tuneup.
I've had a lot of conversations about the Occupy movement and the economic crises and what could be fixed and not fixed. We clearly need to install regulations that Clinton rolled back, and my son was talking about the Tobin tax, which would tax transactions when brokers buy and sell, so that so many rapid fire transactions would be dis-incentivized. Sounds good, but who is the person to stand up and be counted? What the market is now able to do is gamble with the money of investors who have not signed up for risk. The money is in the same pile, and it's a slight of hand game. If the Feds would separate those two actions, then the addicts could gamble all they wanted, just not with our money. They would fail, have logical consequences, like us ordinary folk, and hopeful get discouraged and get help for their addiction. It's like we're all yoked to druggies.
Let's hope someone stands up for what is ethical and morally right. I believe that is what a portion of the Occupy movement people are saying. Let's have some common sense, and be protected by our government from sharks. It's done on the beaches. Let's do it on land.
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