STEVE JOBS HAS JUST DIED

Last night I heard the news; which although expected was no less of a loss. I'm not a computer wizard nor someone whose knowledge about his expertise is worth taking into consideration; I'm just one consumer, but I can still measure the loss and the significance of his life for the western world. Steve Jobs was a living proof of what talent and perseverance can achieve in this great nation. But I do not wish to undertake the challenging task of making Mr. Jobs's eulogy; my purpose is much more mundane and earthly; I just want to humbly point out that the chances of having another Steve Jobs, another Bill Gates, or any of the scores of self made Americans, and foreigners, that have managed to reach success in this country, are getting dangerously slimmer.

For reasons that defy my limited grasp of politics one of the power grabbing groups that rule this nation decided to play the left wing card and catapulted Mr. Obama to the White House; it was obvious they did not want Mc Cain to be president, and I don't blame them, and it seems they didn't want the Clintons either; so here we are stuck with a community agitator, a left wing leaning inexperienced politician who dreams to getting America out of the crisis by changing the very roots, the very DNA of this two century old miracle.

I won't dwell on scandals such as "Fast & Furious", "Solyndra", and the likes; every administration has its own skeletons and this is not the first one; my main concern is the desire to push our mode from success admiring to success coveting; the will to appeal to the lowest and most damaging instincts of the human race: envy, resentfulness, and other maladies; it is obvious to me that a group with such ideas must be defeated in the next elections; however, the problem is what to do after that. I don't believe America will be the same after this experience, and I certainly hope we all become more vigilant and make sure we don't give a blank check to any politician be he or she from the right or from the left. The problem is not really Mr. Obama but how we got here in the first place, what kind of disfranchisement makes a large segment of the nation vote for the wrong guy; if we think that the current president is the cause and not the effect we're in for more unpleasant surprises in the near future.