Is it just me, or is the USA (mostly) run by a bunch of morons and populated (mostly) by the same? The country is over 9 trillion dollars in debt! The governments' answer for a slow down in the economy: give everyone that filed a tax return a rebate check for 300-600 dollars? What kind of answer is that? Let's go deeper in debt? Let's mismanage to even a greater degree? Let's show the world what a complete bunch of idiots we are? Oh my goodness.
Gas prices are too high. What to do? Oh, I know, let's do away with the gas tax at least temporarily? Well, what are those taxes for? Where does that money go...what does that money accomplish? Where is that money going to come from if it doesn't come from those taxes? Oh, I see, let's go further in debt...or rob Peter to pay Paul. We'll pay back Peter later. Good planning.
What plagues America that it has been reduced to a laughing stock? Could it be that the whole political system is based on a popularity contest? Could it be that anyone actually trying to deal with the real issues that the country faces has no real chance of ever being elected because changes of the magnitude necessary would require a complete restructuring of America and would likely impact just about everyone's current life style? Is the problem now too big to address responsibly? Must a new beginning be birthed from catastrophe?
My Christian Interpretation would be that countries rise to power and countries fall from grace. What precedes the fall? A distancing from God, and all things called holy. A man reaps what he sows, and so does a country.
