The world is watching and eagerly awaits the outcome of the United States presidential elections.

If I had the right to vote (voicing option to elect) I would vote for the candidate who suits the following criteria: Bridging All Races According to Concrete Knowledge. Having Untapped Skills Signifying Enlightenment Insight Newness. Offering Better Alternative Mediating Approach.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to a change we can all believe in. The US foreign policies have a direct impact on the world and international relations.

In this regard, the most crucial and important change, is CHANGE for PEACE. This translates, Creating Harmony, Attaining New Global Environment for Presence of Enlightenment, Amicable Conditions Everywhere.

This is not a utopian dream but a realistic goal we must all strive to accomplish!

- Dr Daive R. Facey, dr.facey@gmail.com, Nain, St Elizabeth

Responding to John Rapley: The economic meltdown in the United States was essentially caused by government intervention and regulations, not their lack thereof.

For many years now, banking, housing and insurance have been the most regulated areas of the economy. As to Mr Greenspan, the philosophy he put into practice is the opposite of capitalism.

Back in the 1960s, Ayn Rand taught him why capitalism requires that there be a wall of separation between economics and state, and why the Federal Reserve, as the state's central economic planner, must be abolished.

Yet, Greenspan went on to become the Fed's leader and champion - keeping interest rates artificially low and manipulating the money supply. So, he long ago rejected Miss Rand's philosophy of objectivism - and now he and all of us are paying the price for it.