Sorry it's taking me so long to come up with a new post this month. In fact, I was putting a nice one together - but I need more time.
However, I came across this interesting headline on Yahoo! That really bothered me:
Separate but unequal: Charts show growing rich-poor gap
(The rest is found HERE)
I am NOT much for politics. Unfortunately, I do not follow economic trends as often as I'd like. That is not the point of this blog either. It's about "Leadership". After living 5 years of my youth in Peru - I know the signs of a 3rd World Country. I am so afraid that we are heading in that direction.
The way I see it... the economic health of a nation is a good measure of its leadership. Maybe it's easy for me to say this since I am not rich (yet). However, isn't it the responsibility of those in power to lead with vision? Unfortunately, my memories of living in a 3rd-World country is a lot of defensive language- placing the blame for their situation on other countries, or other circumstances. On the inside, the rich blame the poor, the poor blame the rich. Once the blame-game begins, there's no turning back.
Remember ENRON ? - a "small" example of what can happen when those in power are driven by goals that are not aligned with principles and values that favor the people as a whole. In Peru, one of those 5 years I was there - the country experienced a "hyperinflation" (about 200% +) . I'll never forget how stores would horde the milk and wait for the price to go up before they would sell it. Sound familiar? Instead of milk, we see something similar with gas. In Peru, everyone found out after the fact, that the leaders' interests where those other than what was best for the people. I won't go into the details here. I'm sure there are those that will argue in the presidency's defense. Is there a common thread?
Anyway - I hope I'm wrong. No - Let me rephrase that: Can someone please prove me wrong?
