[Rolo]

The global economy has exposed those problems which are due to local or national situations. Many warning signals telling us that things would change have been there for years or decades, not acting on those signals are not the people´s fault, but rather politicians on both local and national level, who have been too afraid (or prehaps just without longterm vision) to make real changes to an old system, which is weak in the global economy.

I feel sorry for those areas of the western world, which are loosing jobs due to outsourcing and have no visionary people in power to create new jobs.

Ironic, then some of the only job types which are safe from outsourcing, downsizing and technology advances are in politics... their jobs are secured by their own laws, not because they are needed (well atleast not all of them)