With all that is going on with our political front, I sit here thinking of what really matters and what the biggest problem we have as a country right now. It is not entirely the Republicans, nor the Democrats. Actually, it is both parties. It is the total inability for each side to work together. It’s like they have built a large wall between them and are hurling stones over said wall in order to hurt the other side.
Our country is broken and has been for a long time. When jobs left our country for cheaper labor we initially applauded the ability to walk into a store and buy a pair of jeans for half of what they cost if made here. But we realized the downside of that when the unemployment rate rose. But, we still send work overseas. It’s not the fault of the other countries. They are taking care of their needs and interests, and we, well we are taking care of our needs and interest. That interest being the greedy ability to make huge profits from cheap labor elsewhere.
The big picture:
We have a great number of people out of work
We have military personnel that are not being honored and taken care of and are among our homeless (and gone through suicide)
We have a rapidly crumbling infrastructure
We are so far behind other countries in technologies like transportation
We have a welfare system that does not reward work and the need for personal growth
We have created a white collar society of youth that no longer want to become part of the core structure of our country and only wish to be wealthy without getting their hands dirty and build up their worth with good hard work.
Can we bring our country back from this state? I believe it is possible if we began to talk like adults about our problems and not hurl stones at each other. I wonder where the collective rational mind of our country went. It seems to have been gone for a long time now.
The Journey of a thousand miles 