Sorry, I don't really care...

 

 

"I tried to care, but then found out I did not care if I cared..."

 

 

Here we go again. Last week it was Trayvon and/or Zimmerman taking up the news cycle on a 24 x 7 basis. This week, it is the new little king who was born across the pond. This will probably irritate some people, but I am VERY apathetic towards the Royals. Our country fought a war to escape the tyranny of King George III. Our founders made a wise decision to have a President running the joint instead of some kind of Monarch. No, I don't care much for Royal watching - never have, and never will.

With ALL, and I mean ALL the news and issues which need to be talked about, just about everything I watched last night had to do with the little king. It was played over and over and over again. What is his name going to be? Don't know yet - lets see who in the family he resembles. Really? Is that how it is done? Good grief!

Many of the more enlightened that live in the U.K. believe the Royals are nothing more than freeloaders. They have ceremonial posts and are funded for the most part off the backs of the tax paying citizens. One of the pundits was trying to estimate how much the little king would be worth just be being born. I will say this much - he would be firmly embedded in the "1% club" that so many have grown to hate.

The only thing on the news concerning this story that either entertained or informed me was when one of the American pundits asked a British pundit why this was such a big deal. The Brit responded, "Well you {Yanks} have Barack and Michelle Obama. They are kind of like your royalty." BINGO! We have known that for a while now, that our President at times acts more like a king. Now we know other countries see that also.

My only hope is they name that kid early in the day so when the news comes on tonight, we can talk about REAL news. For example, (please excuse me for being a wet blanket) if we need to talk about what is going on in Europe, consider this story that was published by CBS News yesterday:

Europe's debt dynamics keep getting worse in spite of years of cost-cutting and tax hikes designed to return public finances to health.

Official figures showed Monday that the debt burden of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro hit all-time highs at the end of the first quarter even after austerity measures were introduced to rebalance the governments' books.

Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said government debt as a proportion of the total annual gross domestic product of the Eurozone rose to a record 92.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, from 90.6 percent the previous quarter and 88.2 percent in the same period a year ago.

This in and by itself is HUGE news. While we were focusing on other things, the Eurozone is not yet healed - in fact, getting worse. If Europe starts to get wobbly, we will be close behind. But never mind that - who do you think the new king looks like. We really do need to know, so he can ascend to his high place in British history.