What We’re Not Doing
America faces a number of serious problems. Our political leaders are doing little or nothing to address those problems.
The annual Federal deficit now exceeds $1 trillion. As 10,000 Baby Boomers per month qualify for Social Security and Medicare, it will get worse. Deficit at 5% of GDP v. GDP growth of 2% is the road to financial ruin and loss of reserve status for the dollar.
An honest accounting of the shortfall in public sector pension plans and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (which pays retirees of private sector pension plans that went broke) shows a shortfall of $7 trillion. The only (teaspoonful into the ocean) response is from states and localities diverting money from services to pension funds without notifying the taxpayers.
Worldwide trade volume, THE engine of economic growth, is declining. The USMCA deal with Mexico and Canada is sitting in Congress. Other trade negotiations are progressing sporadically at best. Protectionism is alive and well.
China and Russia are developing weapons systems that will render our military powerless. Our response has been pathetic.
Our birthrate is below replacement and our demographic is graying. The obvious solution is a well crafted immigration policy. In lieu of policy, we have a hodgepodge of unevenly enforced rules.
Our education system is a sea of mediocrity, interspersed with islands of criminal neglect. We are not educating the work force of the future. Some brave souls are attempting to fix the problem. Their efforts are being opposed by many government entities and interest groups.
Our infrastructure is a shambles. We have more potholes than people.
In lieu of addressing these problems, what are we doing? We are focused on impeaching and removing President Trump! If the effort is successful, the glorious result would be 10 months of President Pence.
Those working the impeachment jihad have been blind to the obvious question. Why did 63 million American voters pull the voting lever to select a vulgarian to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office? It wasn’t as if we were unaware of his personality before election day. Hillary explained it to us on a daily basis. He bragged about it.
Perhaps the answer to that vital question is that our political leadership has comprehensively failed to address any of the aforementioned problems.
