The times they are a changing

Change is constant. And most humans don’t enjoy change. For example, most humans have a need to plan ahead. And unfortunately, not all change is for the better for humans, even though we would wish it so here in America.

And here we are today watching change happen in front of our eyes. The change I think we see is normal in one way, but the pace has accelerated in another way. It is the pace that makes this old Marine a lot nervous. The burgeoning national debt is one example of change, and even in 2008, Moodys, the credit rating firm, forecasted US Treasury bonds which reach junk bond status by 2016. Now that date has even moved up.

It is the wildcard idea that is most disturbing. Imagining such scenarios of change as the collapse of the US economy because we can’t borrow enough money, and then we don’t buy enough from China that causes them their problems, and there becomes a witches brew. Add in a good natural disaster, like a good volcano in Indonesia, or Yellowstone doing its bit with a geologically periodic major eruption, or the Three Gorges Dam in China being cracked by a man-made earthquake from the weight of the impounded water, with the resulting surge of fresh water into the east china sea through Shanghai that changes weather patterns, and well, it’s a wildcard. Like I said, it is the obvious human fragility to seek some predictability which is so normal.

Now here is the good news. We Americans are different here in the New World. Ideas also count along with human tendencies. We can change as well as anyone, and also know we can vote to help the process along. We are different, and most non-Americans know it. Hence the immigration numbers and flow arrows. In fairness, other peoples are not too bad, either. One normally should live outside of America to recognize this. The basic idea is pretty obvious, most humans will promote their family’s future. And their solutions are not too shabby, either.

I have thought long and hard how to simply explain where we are today here in American politics. All the normal and expected attacks I think I know and recognize. And perhaps it is not too simple. But then perhaps it is more simple than most would like to think about.

Perhaps we have simply compounded too many laws over our two hundred years of existence to make sense with what we have ended up with today. And less I apply this idea to the federal government, the state and county and city governments may also have a part in this idea. We Americans may have to take charge from all the politicians we have elected, and begin to change things another way.

After all, the idea is to enhance our family’s future and opportunities. And then the Nation comes next.