The era of good intentions is over

So much has changed in the last and many decades since WWII. And change is good, I think. The other thought is how about we just live within our means.

Our American character to help our less well off may have been exploited beyond taking care of our own families which is so important to all, and should be the priority of any public policy. And the image of the poor being poor through no fault of their own has masked so much of our American population that are dead beats, that is they are too lazy to work, and get included with our noble efforts to help our poor, especially their kids. Most would say being “poor” in America is a lot better than being poor in so many third world countries. Where I live on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee is good evidence of my opinion. And I have lived in the third world.

This roller coaster of a ride to “help” others, while well intentioned in general, may also bankrupt our country. After all, we can afford up to our budget, and that’s it. Borrowing to go forward as a public policy that will burden our progeny to working months per year just to pay our bills, and may even cause generational warfare in the future, is a poor way to go. Sounds course, but people are people, in the end. And by bankrupt, this means not being able to borrow money, and pay the bills. Then things will get really ugly. Like dog eat dog. Is this what we want?

I think we got to this point by electing people from both national parties at all levels, school boards, city, county, state, and federal. And when times get hard, we will assert our votes perhaps another way. The era of good intentions is over.

So what do we do. Vote at all levels. While going through the hoops is a burden, there is no other way to change things. Except of course civil war or a revolution, which is now so un-American.