Going down the tubes American style

The election of 2006 exposed more than most expected. The overt selfishness of and confidence of many of our elected politicians to get rich for them and their families and contributors is one observation. The unethical behavior is just “in your face”. The main issue is the federal debt and future obligations like Social Security, and the willingness to borrow money to finance it all (to include earmarks) , since taxes and growing income is not the solution. The idea of giving priority to such basic federal government functions as border security, import screening for food safety, or infrastructure upkeep of things our ancestors built are the obvious. Instead we seem to observe photo and voting opportunities about the latest emergency which are in the end, just doing the basic functions of the federal government which should have already been done, and should keep being done if financed with the proper priority.

We have terrible political leaders these days. And people (and pets) are dieing. And why do we keep electing them, those who have been “in our face”? And why do they keep hiring “educated fools”, even if well intended. In the real world, we reinforce success, not failure. We seek out the facts, be they unpleasant or not. And we pay our bills when due.