The shame is that the loss of the honeybee is incredibly tragic news and yet if Obama tried to allot any priority to finding a solution, he'd get killed politically for frittering away millions on a bunch of stupid insects while ignoring the plights of millions of unemployed Americans.

The truth is, if we lose the honeybee, employed and unemployed Americans are in the same boat and that boat is sinking fast. We will be up shit's crick with no paddle, no life preserver, no nothing.

You wonder how this escapes the average American--the fact that we cannot live without honeybees and that we are losing them to the tune of 50% of the total honeybee population disappearing in the last 60 years. I've seen 60 minutes do segments on it but they don't really touch on the major point--we are losing our bees with no hope at this time of stopping it and that we cannot live without them.

During the nut season in California, it used to be only a small portion of the total honeybee population in the US would be sent there to pollinate. Now they say due to the decline, half the total honeybee population in the US is in California during nut season.

I remember one segment 60 Minutes interviewing a beekeeper who was saying that his business would go under if he had another year like the one before (I have no idea what happened to him since) and this guy was one of the major suppliers of bees. He almost burst into tears talking about the severity of the situation. The interviewer asked him, "Bees are important, aren't they?"

His eyes widened and he said, "Well, YEAH they're important!!" But the interviewer didn't dwell on that aspect of it which pissed me off. Tell the public what we are on the verge of and maybe the proper amount of the money and research will be provided! We are on the precipice of a catastrophe that everything else pretty much takes a backseat to and yet no one wants to talk about it.

If we lose our bees, unemployment will be the least of our problems.