Once receiving worldwide accolades as the “nation that feeds the world,” we now have nearly 50 million people in America receiving supplemental nutritional assistance.
Praise once showered America as the industrial giant on the globe. Now in most places we buy our needs; you have to hunt hard to find products made in the United States. You can buy a Dodge truck from Mexico, clothing from Honduras and Pakistan, frozen vegetables from Central America and, yes, Hanes underwear made in Vietnam. The most egregious? American flags made in China.
In the past, we could brag that we really were the most prosperous and affluent nation on Earth. Not so today with unwise spending, waste, fraud and abuse and our continued involvement in other nations’ conflicts, where we had no “compelling national interests” and managed to expend vast amounts of blood and treasure.
This nation, once a world leader, owns the ominous and shameful title of “the world’s largest debtor nation,” with steadily growing debt, excessive borrowing from other nations and a ballooning deficit now on auto-pilot cruising to $21 trillion. It’s unsustainable.
Bipartisanship, a necessity to our form of governance, has been kicked to the curb. Contention, confusion, wrangling and political revenge reign. Leadership has increased indebtedness in part by failing to use compromise and common sense to construct an actual prioritized national budget. Sinking deeper into debt, leadership resorts to passing continued resolutions instead.
When these paper mache budget replacements hit a fiscal wall, the all-knowing simply raise the debt-ceiling limit. It allows us to borrow more, driving us further into debt and ultimately spending it all to find the manipulations with the nation’s fiscal security falling and falling far short of national fiscal responsibilities. Another debt-ceiling limit is being currently considered.
Those willing to see our burgeoning and bloated bureaucracy, on its face, can come to a sobering and serious realization. Big government too often becomes burdensome, bumbling, beleaguered and ineffective government that is losing its connection with the American people.
