The muddle through idea

       One possibility for our future is that somehow things will go on, kinda, like they do today. Now it is probable this will not happen in the next few years, but it might, since new world USA humans are resourceful, and most humans also resist any change to the status quo.

            More probably, but still part of the muddle through idea, is that the vote will still predominate.

            In this case, if there is not enough money to finance everything right now, then it is time to set priorities, like to finance the most important things. That is the value of politicians in this scenario.

            Examples are obvious, like do police and fire and clean water and waste water treatment get priority over food stamps and food banks in this priority idea. Even in California does a fish ladder at Malibu beach get equal priority with feeding California's truly poor?

            Now that is what politicians are for, and if they try give everything equal priority, and preserve the status quo, then it is time to replace them, at least to me. Even if they apply equal cuts to what I think of as higher priority spending objectives the same as lower priority things, like police protection suffering due to lower priorities being treated equally, like environmental stream improvements; then that is a voting issue to me. Even this idea applies to our Federal government spending, too. I myself expect a real National Defense and police protection first and foremost, closely followed by teaching our children.

            Now in my mind, this is the stage we new world USA citizens are entering, and how these politicians do will have a lot to do with our future. After all, we still generate a lot of taxes at all levels (city, county, state, and federal), and how to distribute these taxes is a hard decision that elected politicians should be accountable for.

            I also think a lot of hard working new world USA citizens who also pay taxes are disturbed to think some other lazy Americans are filching off of the poor today using government as a way to do this. In this case, it is time for our politicians to take appropriate actions, to include getting out of the government charity business and sending it back to the private sector that has it's own ways to truly help our poor without as much waste, and filching off these same truly poor by our lazy new world USA citizens.

            Now like the opening paragraph suggested, I doubt this will happen, but in this case, at least we had our chance.