Will we have to learn the hard way again?
July 15th, 2008Will we have to learn the hard way again?
Progress is slow; 2.000 steps forward, and 1.999 steps backward, and we appear to have been going backward for 30+ years.
Our elected politicians and government are failing us, but too many voters continue to repeatedly reward irresponsible and corrupt politicians with 85%-to-90% re-election rates. Thus, the voters are culpable too. Yet 40%-to-50% of voters don’t vote at all; too many voters blindly pull the party-lever without even knowing the candidates on the ballot, much less the candidates’ voting record; too many voters wallow in the distracting partisan warfare; too many voters are too easily bribed with their own tax dollars; too many voters are ignorant of the issues . . . at least until it becomes too painful.
The debt, deficits, borrowing, spending, and excessive money-printing is out-of-control, but it could (or will probably) get much worse.
And it is all exacerbated by the world population increasing (that’s all births - deaths) by 211,000 per day! (yes, that’s per day). That’s 77 million per year. It could possibly grow to 10 to 13 billion in only 30 years. And, importing the less educated and impoverished by the millions per year is not going to help but put a strain on everything else. Yet, politicians act as if we’re in some sort of population race, while they despicably pit American citizens and illegal aliens against each other. Those politicians and open-borders advocates should ask China and India about all of the wonderful advantages of over-population. Check out these Congress Persons voting to give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens. Is that wise, with a 77 million baby-boomer bubble approaching?
There will be eventually be painful consequences for these abuses of the past 30+ years.
At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect.