I spent the journey home in the car yesterday doing a bit of thinking. Where is the whole financial crisis going to end? If it were just one country having problems then it would probably be bought by another country, but it isn\u2019t, it\u2019s the whole world. It\u2019s an interesting thought with free markets. At what point of all the companies being bought by other countries does one of those countries have the right to say \u2018we now own that country\u2019. Take England for example, what makes it English? Now in this country we hold the land \u2018free of any dues to the crown\u2019 \u2013 freehold. What if all the houses for sale and businesses were bought by French people and French companies, at what point would England become part of France? Is this more or less worrying than the thought that a big powerful company like Microsoft might suddenly start buying up bits of England and making us part of their company rather than a country at all. When you really start to think about it, it makes the thought of a job of caretaker of a desert island sound all the more attractive, although the island is owned by the Australian Government, so who\u2019s to say that you couldn\u2019t find you\u2019ve been sold to Microsoft even then.<\/p>\n
All I can say is the time for dogs to have their say and sort out this situation is definitely here. It\u2019s only humans that have been carried away on a bandwagon of excess, we\u2019re still as happy with a bone. There\u2019s so much that humans can learn from their dogs, if only they would take the time to sit down and ask us. We\u2019d tell you all our secrets of a happy life in exchange for just the odd pat or two.<\/p>\n
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