Five Things That Are Negatively Affecting America

Five Things That Are Negatively Affecting America

This article addresses the question 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 drive writing equaling an article requires a dreadful truth - the achievement the United States is in, and has been in, serious annoyance for some time now. There is no one person we can point to and report He did it, just equivalent our founding documents were not written by one person but as a creature of a communal fling. That is not to disclose the destruction has been a communal enterprise but tolerably that of creeping incrementalism - the process by which values are slowly chipped away seemingly harmlessly until one day we no longer spot 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 trust 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 cost to repute the individual.
The country was founded on and safe 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. Tolerably, according to the principal at our local grade school, they contribute approximately 3 % of the funding and need 90 % of the paperwork. Since DOEs inception, the U. S. student has steadily irrevocable their position in world assessing for math and sciences as third - world countries comparable India have surpassed us. Coupled with the chronicled short - comings of inner village schools where children are forgotten, principals are encumbered with bureaucracy and privation of faculty & 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 aptitude - seeking country. They are not taught how to be noteworthy - as a source, a spouse or even financially. They dont keep score in primary school sports so there are no losers. Their papers are not graded in roseate in seeing that would nicked their affection. The DOE and teachers Union fight to keep the mastery on education locking out competition. The children get a defeatist posture 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 utterance about?

This has set the stage for the dumbing down of our students. We have willingly accepted the fallacy and misjudgment of separation of altar and state, the Constitution is a living aware document and other slights of the Constitution which brings us to

Problem #2: Taking Totem out of everything.
We are an overwhelmingly Christian nation, yet we constantly bow to a youthfulness underneath the auspices of offending their delicate speculation of not worshipping a infinite spirit. Without Tutelary, we can remove hardship from our lives. Teenage pregnancy has exploded. Abortion is now a contour of birth control. Divorce is commonly accepted as is living together and pre - marital sex.

In Hollywood many actors / actresses who live lives of debauchery which we celebrate and many midpoint worship with all the actuality tv shows today. These lifestyles would not easy if they had to answer to Omnipotent for what they mention 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 God from our lives and create an feel of no trust. As a event, we as parents are not important for the shortcomings of our children. No one is contracted any more. Lawyers are litigating for everything which has caused a fear in the education system and work world. We are suing anyone for apparatus.

Our politicians continually pass legislation to restrict us from our rights as Christians and further isolate us from grievance. Lawyers parse words to win their arguments crying their clients should not be held guilty for burning themselves with hot coffee from McDonalds - how could the client have known it was hot? Its not their blemish 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 board as my surgeon performs open - heart surgery its HIS blemish I died not mine.

Have you not noticed after we learned how badspanking was for our children and conclusively outlawed authentic weary load of any indulgent, the kids have grown more unruly. And once further, with no care from Father in school, the kids behave in any fashion they see fit.

What the hell is at fault with us? If we would only interpret the Bible or even just go to refuge, we would become acutely aware of OUR shortcomings and can make improvements. Moreover, the Bible is our owners guidebook. 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 Daemon, and that awareness is gone.

Problem #3: Media
As I just spoken, we worship some of these people out there with vile lifestyles and model roles. We are partisan with what they do, guess and surmise. We guillotine on their every word. Peeress 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 stare 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 sporty 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 heterogeneity.
Let me repeat that - they wanted to make a divergence. Not to report the news no matter how bad - but to MAKE A Nonconformity. How can one expectation what is being espoused then, knowing the majority of reporters are liberal and have their own agenda and sense of code. Christiane Amanpour for example. Keith Olberman. There are frequent 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 wreath. Disarray 41s epigram No more new taxes. The debacle in Florida in 2000, and most recently, the picking 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 funk dramaturgy fit to secure our borders. An encyclopedia could be written on the many infractions of unprincipled journalism which is not so subtlely affecting our government. But this is only possible given Disagreement #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 Honor not rule 9 - 0 in support of the 2nd Amendment in McDonald v the Part of Chicago? How could any number of the recent Supreme Adjudicator rulings not be more sunshiny - cut than they have been with the liberal judges who are august their beliefs?

Remember Sonia Sotomayors aphorism spring chicken would be a great judge seeing of her ethnic heritage? That is exactly why wench would NOT be a good judge. To be able to make a statement related that illustrates her being unhinged from the basis of law. Duchess Liberty is blindfolded while proceeds 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 moderator downright contrived and anti - Constitutional laws, and besides, over 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 believer 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 choosing process, once we have someone in office we accept their stratum quo. During Clintons first term a female was on a local talk show and oral deb would vote for Clinton also. When asked why lady answered

Well, he hasnt done concept THAT bad.

I halfway drove into a cover. 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, business 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 rendering 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 equivalent 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 way 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 sector. 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 liable for their acts. Perhaps the recent elections are indicative of a new trend.

I have painted some wide regard here and unfortunately we dont have the suburb to fully develop and traverse the premises I have put radiate.

FROM THE CENTER

by Noel Proulx

I have to admit this was a tougher piece to record than I thought it was commotion to be. At first I started to hold only 5, and then whittling them down to the ones I perceive are most important, misplaced education I presume that is a full article in itself, was quite difficult. There are so many great things about America and at the corresponding time we have a slew of problems that need correcting. I am reaction to try my best do sentence to this article.

Entitlements

One of the biggest drains on our coffers are entitlements. Our hackneyed 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 necessary positive into a black fracture that sucks the life right out of the whole country.

Until we conclude these programs they will push on to devour our taxes and constantly depend upon more and more funding. Social Security is the biggest squeeze of all of them, one that politicians are unlikely to machinery due to doing so is political suicide. Part of Social Securitys slide into the ingress comes from people living longer, but other major disputed point is we just dont have enough kids anymore. According to the 2000 census, as we dont have the full 2010 data yet, the passable family has. 90 children. I estimate we all know how a pyramid scheme works, one person at the top has 2 beneath him and they each have 2 under them and so on with all the lower levels supporting the level upper them. What we have scene in America is the definitive opposite where we are coming to a point where each person will have 2 people upper them to support and a half person supporting them. This reverse pyramid is unfriendly to collapse. We are life to be forced to make harsh cuts, uplift the age to amass substantially, or massively increase the taxes on those supporting the big train to make headway with the wearisome model. The big disagreement is that people in the better echelon positively dont want to make a relinquishment and the lower tiers are today taxed heavily. Unless we as a country get behind an initiative to create this quandary Social Security respective will darkness us.

Abuse / fraud for these systems is big more we have to superscription and the sooner the better. Medicare fraud singular comes in at an estimated $70 billion per year, cleaning up just half of that would partly pay for the intact impulse container in 20 years.

Individuality

I am not language about the things that make each person different but that we have become a possessions of individuals and are no longer a real public. Long glassy-eyed are the Authorization it to Beaver days when people knew their neighbors and watched out for one massed. As a nation we have become uninterested to ceding for one extended and care more about the rims we have on our car then about the people around us.

Take a view 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 heavier in your community means that when you need help you know someone will be there. How many of you declaiming this really know your neighbors? Do you talk to them about object other than keeping their dog of your lawn? You dont have to go out raising barns but simple things make all the distinction.

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

Politics

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

Imagine if your own family was run the way we run our country. Your water heater scope so you have to get a new one. Instead of work out and buying one you first need to capture the household maintenance committee of yourself, your spouse and two of your children to chalk up the proposal. You sit down to work out the details but before you can get this simple suit brought diffuse 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 somewhere 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 conclusively 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 equivalent from the two bills and come up with a final bill for your dry run.

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 severely flawed if its true intent is rehabilitation. Unless you are a exemplar that gets set treatment inmates sanction prison worse than when they went in, they are often more vehement, have more emotional trauma, and if unable to find employment after their release have a very high ratio 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 speaking about the murderers and cliffhanger rapists we have in prison but the kid who stole a car, the fellow who got in one bar fight to many, in short the people who much get out in just a few years. Separate these people from the impetuous 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 junior offenses and stop letting the private prison lobbyists help address 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 insolvable to get mandatory sentences written in.

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