Our Country is being poorly led

The solution is to “elect” and “appoint” real leaders, locally, state-wide, and federally. How we got to the present situation is a worthy book subject. In the meantime, the evidence is as clear as an unpolluted mountain stream.

We presently have a Department of State and a Foreign Service Office that has employees resisting orders to Iraq and in spite of the oath they took. They are even using their union to tell we other Americans how things should be. And many other Americans are presently serving in Iraq to fill quotas they refused to fill just a short half year ago.

We presently have bureaucrats, fellow Americans, issuing the most absurd rulings and practices. Often they just reflect poor judgment. And all too often they are good intentioned ways to implement the most absurd layers upon layers upon layers of laws passed by politicians that too often are reactions, vice actions. And our dependence on lawyers and CPA’s has a basis given the present situation.

We so often forget we have Senators standing in front of a press area pushing an immigration Bill that is still being written by the technocrats, their “hired” staffs. That “they know not of what they speak” is so obvious to most that these Senators should be embarrassed and shamed, but they are not these days. This is a classical sign of a poor leader.

The House of Representatives are supposed to be more sensitive to the prevailing times, and the electorate. Yet today’s group is more sensitive to media power, party power and national elites’ personal political goals. The concept of “career politician” is relatively new in our Nation’s history, as the concept of “citizen politician” has faded. National interests have been trumped not just by local interests, but by the politician’s personal career interests, and of course the national elites’ personal political goals. This is another classical sign of a poor National leader.

The politics of personal destruction and the criminalization of politics as a way to achieve political agendas and egos has corrupted the natural well spring of human leaders taking the time off from their busy lives to run our Country, again locally, state-wide, and federally. The only way for we Americans to correct this problem is to vote-out those who choose these techniques, and vote in those leaders who think otherwise. Since the technique works for the benefit of those who practice it, at least so far, the vote is the only way to change things for our common benefit.

Most parents appreciate the idea of “saying no”, we can’t afford it, or we don’t want to pay for it. These same parents will lead their family to higher priorities. Yet, in the same vein, we have pandering politicians offering more benefits to those of the middle class and business class (I am thinking agriculture businesses) without thought to paying for it. Even the recently new gimmick of “earmarks” reflects poor leadership for our Country as a whole. Yet now we are borrowing $3 billion dollars a day to pay for what is already promised, and this is on top of the multi-trillion dollar tax collections. All this is another sign of poor leadership.

Not too many generations ago, war here was defined as an attack on America. The attacks on NYC and DC on 9/11/2001 are as obvious as the noses on our faces. That we withstood it and recovered from it is a matter of National pride. After all the attacks did terrible sufferings to we Americans. Yet now we have people running to be President of the United States who think otherwise. They deliberately confuse the issues of terror, national defense, civil rights, and the present leaders’ conduct (executive and congressional). These people are another sign of poor leadership, in this case the pool of candidates to be possible future Presidents.

All is not gloom and doom. America, and the New World, is better than the past; and the Old World. We do not have to go down the path of the Soviet Union, or even Nazi Germany, or even today’s socialist France*, or any of the many idealistic communes in American history. Rather we can be American. And it will take the vote to elect “leaders” to change things.

* The “old” French have a good deal. The “new” French young people and taxpayers may disagree. The astute American might want to pay attention as to how it sorts out, there. How their present new President tries to sort it out is worth watching.