The cupboard is getting bare

Let's start restocking it.

Of course this is an analogy to present day USA, at least in my mind.

After over a century of progressive/liberal ideas that we voted for in electing our representatives, and also fighting some major wars, the results may be the culprit. Now it may be the ideas, or it may just be the timing of implementing these many wonderful ideas as time as dealt out, especially since World War II.

And it is worse if one looks at it like I do, being an experienced and worldly history nut, who has lived inside the beltway in D.C. to boot, both in high school (the 60's) and later in professional life (the 80's).

Can we new world USA types "kill the goose that lays the golden egg?" The simple answer is yes. My evidence is the present situation.

Now as a setup for a way to "restock the cupboard", I offer the following problems we voters can correct, if we want to.

For a start, we have been poorly educating our kids, to even where in some locations publically funded schools' curriculums have been skewed to include indoctrination, kind of like a Madrasah does. So now, when I hear the most stupid statements from our elected leaders, I still wonder if they are just lying, acting like they are in some kind of debate club, or are just plain poorly educated enough to believe what they say. Even when President Obama stated we had 57 States is an example of what I mean. Is that how we want to be ruled? The local politician in Michigan also comes to mind when she did not even know about border states, like which States border Mexico.

Second, morals and integrity count, like knowing the difference between right and wrong, to include the humans where you live, and your own Family. In this idea, most of this is taught at home. So if it not taught, imbued if you will, then we are just taking sustenance out of the cupboard. If not taught at home, just where?

Third, and again obviously to me, are the two present day national parties in the USA are doing a poor job, like offering us more of the same that has presented us with the present situation we have today. Again, in my analogy, they have been making the cupboard bare, like draining the well, which can go dry in the end, and we have been electing them. Hence it may be time for another political party to better represent us, we Americans.

Now most third party attempts are considered to be failures in the long run, going back around a hundred years. I agree with that history. Mostly these past efforts have depended on personalities. This time the financing is more idea oriented, and may stick, like be around for one or two decades, or even start replenishing the cupboard for an even longer period. Only time will tell.

An fourth, and last, we in our new world USA are truly blessed with wonderful land resources that will help our fellow new world USA people, and I sure hope, and think, over time that the exploitation of same will balance out with common sense. Again, only time will tell. I myself, think it will balance out OK.

So to conclude, it is easy to bitch, but to me that means also offering solutions. Hence, what is offered is another way to think about our common future, to include old time expressions like "the cupboard is getting bare".