It's Up To US

From the excellent Post-Gazette columnist Brian O'Neill:

"The switch from President George Bush to President Barack Obama has been universally seen as dramatic, but this much hasn't changed: The American economy is still based on filling our cars with imported gasoline so we can drive to the mall to buy Asian goods so foreigners can loan us back the dollars to finance two wars on the other side of the world while we sink further in debt."

A President can have a vision. A President can motivate the people. But a President can't make the people change. We have to do that ourselves. What are you doing to change the world?

Let's not forget that with all the hubbub over which streets get cleaned and paved and which construction mess gets covered up with a pretty sign, the G20 isn't here to judge Pittsburgh. The G20 is here to try to fix the financial mess the world is in. Pittsburgh looks damned pretty compared to that.