Things We Take for Granted

In an election year, it is easy to become caught up in the political discussion about which candidate has the best policy on education, which candidate will fix healthcare, or which candidate will lower our gas prices. It is easy to focus on the problems because politicians don’t get elected for the things that have gone right. These are the things we take for granted, but there are certainly places in the world where the things we take for granted are serious concerns. Zimbabwe is one of those places. Yesterday, it was determined that the Zimbabwe dollar has suffered from 11,200,000% inflation for the 12 previous months . That’s 11.2 million percent inflation. As Tom Palmer has aptly said, this is how you destroy a country . As you may have surmised, this is a classic example of hyperinflation . The leaders of Zimbabwe are at best clueless and at worst ruthlessly careless as to the effects of their policies. Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe a...