The American Empire is doomed. Oh, it will take its time, but rest assured the U.S. economy will completely collapse sometime within this century. The main reason is simple: politicians care more about their reelections and having 'their' party in power than they do about America. They simply will not do what is needed to resolve our biggest problems.
I view our national debt issues like this:
You charge a thousand dollars to your credit card each and every month without fail. You realize that you are in serious financial trouble because of this. So, you decide to forgo buying a cup of coffee once a week.
Yep, that will certainly help.
Or this:
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| Mr. Defense Budget and Mr. All The Rest |
You have the big, real financial problem standing there (primarily the military budget, though health care and social security are a part of it). You know for a fact that if you want any chance at all of saving your country you need to tell that big guy to start losing a few pounds. Instead, you tell the skinny guy he must drop a hundred pounds. Make sense? No, of course not. Yet this is exactly what our Congress is doing to us. Oh no, we can't cut the military budget, even though that is what is sinking us. That would keep me from getting reelected. How about we cut things like diplomacy, even though it is already stretched thin and is but a tiny drop in the vast ocean of defense spending.
Sorry, but magic doesn't actually exist in the world. I don't see this as a political post, as the problem we face is one that affects all of us regardless of ideology. President Eisenhower was once our supreme commander of the armed forces, yet
he warned us in no uncertain terms not to allow the bloating of the military-industrial complex, and we have done exactly what he warned us not to do.
