What a world, what a world ….

I wish I could tell you everything’s gonna be alright.

But I can’t.

In the Middle East in the days ahead, hundreds, perhaps thousands of people are going to die and there’s not a whole lot any of us can do about it.

And it was all started by a religion – if you can call it that – where followers are told they must kill people who don’t believe what they believe. How can that even be called a ‘religion’?

In Washington, there is still going to be mass confusion and no leadership, and yet these people are still drawing paychecks. We really need to do something about that, but the D.C. idiots are probably going to continue to get re-elected by even more idiots.

Some of us look to, say, our local TV stations in the hope that there’s some good news out there somewhere, but then we see where most of the local outlets don’t even care about spelling or grammar in their graphics, so why should we rely on them for anything.

Week before last, virtually every television station in Charlotte couldn’t spell or pronounce the city of Albemarle, which says a lot about the quality of local broadcasting, doesn’t it?

There is little doubt that one of the best ways to handle the global situation is to simply avoid the news, but that’s hard to do, because we all want or need to see if there’s anything happening that directly affects us.

And that, too, is a fairly large part of the problems facing the world: if it doesn’t hit home, then maybe we should just ignore it.

But it’s hard to ignore such things when you go to the grocery store and have to pay $5 for something that a couple of months ago cost $1.99 or when you fill up at the gas pump and the price is, say, $50, when not along ago it was half that.

Those of us who know where to look discover that oil companies and grocery chains are reaping record profits, while most farmers are making about the same – or even less – than they did a year ago.

Something about that just isn’t right, you know?

Then there are those car manufacturers and salespeople who apparently successfully convince? you that $75,000 is not a bad price for a pickup truck, while at the same time denying assembly line workers a little more money while paying their CEOs seven-figure bonuses.

Somehow, it seems that the whole world has gotten way out of whack in just the past few months and not enough people seem to care.

We need to get down to business, my friends.

First, we simply have to get rid of politicians who are in the government game for self-gratification, the electorate be damned.

We must concentrate on doing whatever we can to help the very many people who simply can’t help themselves.

Our world needs to get back in synch, and sooner than later.

Because if we wait too much longer, it could very well be too late, like when the Wicked Witch of the West started melting and crying “what a world, what a world.”

Time to wake up, America.

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