Pittsburgh Hosts a Big Party: Hope something positive happens

Today Pittsburgh is hosting the G-20 participants, spouses, journalists, and maybe thousands of other people who have a message to share. This latter group goes by a number of names: protestors, disruptors, advocates--you get the picture. They want to use the occasion of the summit to bring attention to one of a number of issues. There are folks from inside the city to even countries away that will have a presence today. What I don't want to see happen today is anything that will detract even a nanosecond from some of the big issues on the table. We need some agreement on the economy, trade, and climate change just to get the ball rolling. While I am all in favor of summits like this one, far too often the bottom line is nothing-nada. People come away saying it was a good meeting and the same issues are taken up the next time they get together. The mayor of Pittsburgh said that the summit will showcase Pittsburgh and allow it to shed its "rust-belt" image. While this is all well and good, the best thing that could happen for Pittsburgh is to be the place that some of the big issues of the day get some agreement and movement toward solution. I know the Europeans are in an uproar over bankers' compensation and how the stimulus money is coming down but how about the environment? It is time for the leaders of the free world to lead. If that happens in Pittsburgh, it will be bigger than the Super Bowl or the World Series to the world's future.

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