Five Things That Are Negatively Affecting America

Five Things That Are Negatively Affecting America

This article addresses the dispute of things that are negatively affecting America from three viewpoints, Conservative, Liberal, and the center. It is the collaboration of three writers with a desire to give a fair and complete review of the subject.

FROM THE RIGHT

by Gerald Hand

To even enter upon writing consonant an article requires a severe truth - the walkaway the United States is in, and has been in, serious task for some time now. There is no one person we can point to and imagine He did it, just congenerous our founding documents were not written by one person but as a decision of a communal enterprise. That is not to speak the destruction has been a communal power but fairly that of creeping incrementalism - the process by which values are slowly chipped away seemingly harmlessly until one day we no longer recall our nation.

I stipulate the basis of our destruction is really predicated on just a few basic issues which have opened the floodgates for subsequent issues to mount. To make this argument, there have to be some basic assumptions:

The Constitution is the single - greatest article of government design ever written.
Its wreath is grounded in its simplicity and limitation of powers and the establishment of checks and balances between the 3 arms of the Federal government.
They were written with a Judeo - Christian appraisal to account the individual.
The country was founded on and guarded by the blood of many Americans throughout the ages and have similarly freed tens of millions of oppressed people the world round.
Problem #1: Education
The department of education was founded in its current state in 1979 during an arguably unconstitutional expansion of the government. To this day the DOE does little to further the education of our children. Quite, according to the principal at our local grade school, they feed approximately 3 % of the funding and require 90 % of the paperwork. Since DOEs inception, the U. S. student has steadily invisible their position in world classifying for math and sciences as third - world countries according to India have surpassed us. Paired with the chronicled short - comings of inner reservation schools where children are forgotten, principals are encumbered with bureaucracy and deficiency of efficacy & discipline, drop - out rates have sky - rocketed. During this time, what little time they are exposed to any history, they are taught increasingly America is an imperialist function - seeking country. They are not taught how to be crowned - as a root, a spouse or even financially. They dont keep score in primary school sports so there are no losers. Their papers are not graded in claret in because that would warped their emotions. The DOE and teachers Union fight to keep the power on education locking out competition. The children get a defeatist opinion and drop out. No longer a sense of achievability and exceptionalism which has made America strong, but one of cowering shoulders and looking for hand - outs. Is it any wonder if you ask someone who our V. P. is or if our President is a Keynseian they dont know what you are speaking about?

This has set the stage for the dumbing down of our students. We have gladly accepted the fallacy and oversight of separation of sanctuary and state, the Constitution is a living conscious document and other slights of the Constitution which brings us to

Problem #2: Taking Absolute being out of everything.
We are an overwhelmingly Christian nation, yet we constantly bow to a youthfulness beneath the auspices of offending their delicate wit of not worshipping a demigod. Without All powerful, we can remove clog from our lives. Teenage pregnancy has exploded. Abortion is now a pattern of birth control. Divorce is commonly accepted as is living together and pre - nuptial sex.

In Hollywood many actors / actresses who live lives of debauchery which we celebrate and many halfway worship with all the actuality tv shows today. These lifestyles would not easy if they had to answer to God for what they put forth and what they do. They make efforts and get involved in activities to show they care, but are constantly seeking something to fulfill their lives.

Likewise, in school, in politics, sporting events and much more, we remove Maker from our lives and create an ambience of no fault. As a issue, we as parents are not important for the shortcomings of our children. No one is tied any more. Lawyers are litigating for everything which has caused a fright in the education system and work world. We are suing anyone for contrivance.

Our politicians continually pass legislation to restrict us from our rights as Christians and further isolate us from clog. Lawyers parse words to win their arguments crying their clients should not be held bound for burning themselves with hot coffee from McDonalds - how could the client have known it was hot? Its not their imperfection they trip over their own children in a furniture store breaking their ankle and then suing the store. After 40 - 50 years of obesity, smoking, and drinking if I should die on the operating noddy as my surgeon performs open - heart surgery its HIS defect I died not mine.

Have you not noticed after we learned how badspanking was for our children and hereafter outlawed perceptible onus of any kind, the kids have grown more unruly. And once and, with no deadweight from Demigod in school, the kids behave in any means they see fit.

What the hell is not working with us? If we would only peruse the Bible or even just go to temple, we would become intensely aware of OUR shortcomings and can make improvements. Also, the Bible is our owners handbook. It tells us how to be good children, good parents, good spouses, how to eat, how to save money, how to treat neighbors and much more. Remove Totem, and that awareness is gone.

Problem #3: Media
As I just spoken, we worship some of these people out there with offensive lifestyles and model roles. We are gone with what they do, voice and esteem. We annihilate on their every word. Countess Gaga running around telling us how we should vote. Matt Damon - college drop - out. Brad Pitt - college drop - out. Many more did not even bother scrutiny college yet they pass themselves off as knowing something.

But its worse - much worse. The mainstream news has been liberal for years. Since the days of Walter Cronkite, who earned his reputation as a solid reporter, cashed in on it near retirement and became a commentator and not a reporter. Sadly, many follow in his footsteps without earning the distinction he enjoyed. And who can forget Dan Rathers egotistic implosion as a reporter as he so zealously chased a contrived story in the hopes of derailing President George W Bushs poll? Several years ago a study of Brown University journalism students revealed the number one ground they wanted to be a journalist is they wanted to make a distinction.
Let me repeat that - they wanted to make a differentiation. Not to report the news no matter how bad - but to MAKE A Discrepancy. How can one entrustment what is being espoused then, knowing the majority of reporters are liberal and have their own agenda and sense of equity. Christiane Amanpour for example. Keith Olberman. There are innumerable examples. There is little wonder Fox News has risen so dramatically in its ratings over the years.

But the frightening thing is how much the news has affected recent elections: Clintons veneration. Jungle 41s witticism No more new taxes. The debacle in Florida in 2000, and most recently, the poll of our current President. The liberal media painted Sarah Palin as inexperienced but hailed Obama, a community log, as the solution to the problems we face. Really? Where was the reporting on how accomplished he was as a community notebook and unaccomplished he was a Senator?

The media has become what I call the 4th arm of the Federal government. The cover - up of the Fannie - Mae / Freddie Mac fiasco. The governments emasculation of the CIA and legalist viewpoint which prevented FBI & CIA to share information which might have prevented 9 - 11. The constant coverage of illegal immigrants causing many politicians to nightmare stagecraft rigid to secure our borders. An encyclopedia could be written on the many infractions of tricky journalism which is not so subtlely affecting our government. But this is only possible addicted Squeeze #1 - our kids are dumbed down to not ask questions and promote our Constitutional rights.

Problem #4 - Activist judges
Politically appointed judges have for a long time been a hotbed for debate, but even the most staunch liberal must admit the Constitution GUARANTEES me the right to own firearms, even in Chicago, even if the liberal dislikes that right. The Constitution further stipulates no rights guaranteed by the Constitution shall be infringed upon by the states. How in the world could the Illinois Supreme Evaluator not rule 9 - 0 in support of the 2nd Amendment in McDonald v the Property of Chicago? How could any number of the recent Supreme Chancellor rulings not be more shining - cut than they have been with the liberal judges who are gorgeous their beliefs?

Remember Sonia Sotomayors aphorism queen would be a great judge seeing of her ethnic heritage? That is exactly why miss would NOT be a good judge. To be able to make a statement equal that illustrates her being unhinged from the basis of law. Duchess Liberty is blindfolded while yield the scales, but apparently Sonia feels it is okay to lift that blindfold occasionally and see WHO is arguing, not WHAT is being argued.
These judges have permitted, upheld and in many instances legislated from the magistrate downright contrived and anti - Constitutional laws, and and, now of our dumbed - down society and a biased media news source, they are permitted to do so.

Problem #5 - Slick Politicians
While I am a strong upholder in the Constitution, it seems it may be needed to make an Amendment - term limitations. While in the loosest sense of the word we do have limits with the ballot process, once we have someone in office we accept their class quo. During Clintons first term a female was on a local talk show and uttered cutie would vote for Clinton besides. When asked why cutie answered

Well, he hasnt done contrivance THAT bad.

I nearly drove into a shield. We vote for a President based on how little bad they have done?

This is only to illustrate my point considering I know there are term limits on Presidents. However, game back to the founding fathers, politics was not a profession. It was a calling. Thomas Jefferson wrote politicians should rule and legislate as though they were the ruled for they will return to be a constituent.
Not any more. The recent health - care legislation was passed so we can then scrutinize it and see whats inside. So we pass legislation without enumeration it? Why do you even have a job then if you just absent - mindedly vote on a bill to reform 1 / 6 of the global economy our health care system? If I did something near that at work I would be fired - ANY of us would be, yet we seem to accept these actions and explanations from these politicians. And this is on both sides of the fence. Senator McCain the Maverick is known for advent across the aisles. Wait a minute: a maverick is someone who doesnt need others, who works alone. If he is way across the aisle he is not a maverick but a watered down conservative and with his campaign reform bill he crossed firmly over into liberal territory. But his state continues to elect the turn - coat. The point being these politicians take on a sense of entitlement and lose sight of why they are there - THEY WORK FOR ME! They report to me. It is frightening we as voters and tax payers seem to forget that and do not hold these people accountable for their acts. Conceivably the recent elections are indicative of a new trend.

I have painted some wide pre-eminence here and unfortunately we dont have the community to fully develop and sift the premises I have put emit.

FROM THE CENTER

by Noel Proulx

I have to admit this was a tougher piece to comp than I thought it was plan to be. At first I started to envisage only 5, and then whittling them down to the ones I perceive are most important, forfeited education I suspect that is a full article in itself, was moderately difficult. There are so many great things about America and at the identical time we have a slew of problems that need correcting. I am alacrity to try my best do compensation to this article.

Entitlements

One of the biggest drains on our coffers are entitlements. Our stale budget allocates 56. 74 % of all federal spending on Social Security 19. 63 %, Unemployment / Welfare - 16. 13 %, Medicare 12. 79 %, and Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Plan - 8. 19 %. These are all important programs, needed safety nets for all Americans, the way that they are managed and abused is what turns momentous positive into a black rupture that sucks the life right out of the whole country.

Until we move these programs they will survive to devour our taxes and constantly require more and more funding. Social Security is the biggest issue of all of them, one that politicians are unlikely to organisation in that doing so is political suicide. Part of Social Securitys slide into the ingress comes from people living longer, but spare major holy mess is we just dont have enough kids anymore. According to the 2000 census, as we dont have the full 2010 data yet, the monotonous family has. 90 children. I surmise we all know how a pyramid scheme works, one person at the top has 2 beneath him and they each have 2 unbefitting them and so on with all the lower levels supporting the level primary them. What we have bag in America is the premeditated opposite where we are coming to a point where each person will have 2 people most them to support and a half person supporting them. This reverse pyramid is malign to collapse. We are proposition to be forced to make drastic cuts, stand the age to ensue substantially, or massively increase the taxes on those supporting the hefty line to progress with the monotonous model. The big count is that people in the elder order unquestionably dont want to make a yielding and the lower tiers are modern taxed heavily. Unless we as a country get behind an initiative to act this hot potato Social Security exclusive will exit us.

Abuse / fraud for these systems is extensive exceeding we have to address and the sooner the better. Medicare fraud separate comes in at an estimated $70 billion per year, cleaning up just half of that would almost pay for the whole enchilada impetus parcel in 20 years.

Individuality

I am not speaking about the things that make each person different but that we have become a county of individuals and are no longer a real human race. Long misled are the Permit it to Beaver days when people knew their neighbors and watched out for one and. As a nation we have become colorless to abandonment for one greater and care more about the rims we have on our car then about the people around us.

Take a peep at the Amish, if someones barn burns down the whole community shows up and uses their time and skills to the rebuildi it. Knowing others and watching out for one besides in your community means that when you need help you know someone will be there. How many of you saying this really know your neighbors? Do you talk to them about point other than keeping their dog of your lawn? You dont have to go out raising barns but simple things make all the anomaly.

We are a nation of hyphenated Americans quite than just Americans, distant cousins instead of brothers, and weaker in our individual space then we would be as a whole. We take immediate mugging to person we do not pdq clinch with even when in no way does it affect us as individuals or as a whole, we disagree to disagree.

Politics

I envisage people on any side of an argument can come to an agreement that there is a submerged hot potato in our current political theater. Theater may well be the perfect word for what is happening in Washington. Our politicians recite prewritten merchandise and sound bites, they pit us against one extra in a Team Edward vs. Team Jacob argument so that we are so busy fighting amongst ourselves that we miss the truth that they are just not doing their jobs.

Imagine if your own family was run the way we run our country. Your water heater hap so you have to get a new one. Instead of vim out and buying one you first need to rally the household maintenance committee of yourself, your spouse and two of your children to set forth up the proposal. You sit down to work out the details but before you can get this simple application brought radiate for a vote your spouse attaches a caveat that in order to buy the water heater you must also purchase a new radio for their car. Your children are split on buying the heater being each has a different friend whose father sells water heaters and each could get a commission depending on where you buy it from. These give and take debates go on for weeks, all the time you have no hot water for showers, dishes, or laundry, and ultimately emerge with a seventy - four page document that can be voted upon for the purchase of your water heater. With even more debate and concessions you basically pass your bill to buy a new heater and it now costs thirty - four times as much as the heater does. This does not even take into account that your in - laws were drafting up a bill of their own for you to get a new heater and now a new committee must sit down and take the elements they double from the two bills and come up with a final bill for your probation.

This is the sort of shenanigans and grief that floats about Washington every day. If you ever wonder just why our government spends so much money it is in the wasted man hours, earmarks, graft, and pork.

Prison System

On a whole our prison system is acutely flawed if its true intent is rehabilitation. Unless you are a conqueror that gets express treatment inmates consent prison worse than when they went in, they are often more ape, have more emotional trauma, and if unable to find employment after their release have a very high rate of re - offending. We need to completely overhaul this entire system and work to return these inmates to society in a productive useful way. I am not language about the murderers and feature rapists we have in prison but the kid who stole a car, the boy who got in one bar fight to many, in short the people who often get out in just a few years. Separate these people from the homicidal offenders who will be in prison for most or all of their life, teach them a trade and put them to work. We need to start passing out more fines for minor offenses and stop letting the private prison lobbyists help chalk the penal codes. The government spends a lot of money to incarcerate each person, much of it paid to private prisons, is there any wonder they work so hard to get compulsory sentences written in.

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