Ummm, can we just ask ourselves a few questions here?
Where did this mess really start? I believe it all began when we seen our brother and sister citizens jumping from the burning twin towers.
I believe it started with the Heroes that went down in that Pennsylvania field.
I believe it started with the Pentagon being crashed into through an orchestrated attack on our American Society.
Our ancestors (and some of us) fought in wars on foreign soil. But NEVER before had something like this ever happened. The closest thing was Pearl Harbor, but the death toll of 9/11 exceeded that.
We responded by declaring war on terrorism. We declared war on Iraq in the name of "Weapons of Mass Destruction". Did we find any? No. What are we still doing there?
They say everything will be lost if we pull out now. But IMO, I believe after generations and generations of fighting, it's going to happen if we stay or if we pull our troops out.
#1. We are paying for the War! Bring our boys home. I think we should tell Iraq, we have problems at home. We need our boys back. If you want our help, then you are going to have to help us for a change. I never understood why we as a country, go in, blow everything off the map, then pay to rebuild it all.
#2. Bring our jobs back home. Control or at least regulate imports. Concentrate on Exports.
#3. Do something to bring the price of Petroleum back down. The oil companies are sucking us dry. Transportation costs of our essential needs only adds to the squeeze. Which leads me to #4.
#4. Develop new Energy Technologies. The Hydrogen Generation will come and is coming. Oil Companies will always produce and we will always use it. But we have to get off it as being a "have to have thing.". This so-called "Energy Crisis" that we are in, they started harping about back in the 70's. Why didn't we do something then?
Lots of reasons. Every Inventor that came up with something useful was bought out or gotten rid of entirely. Why did Ford crush the EV's they made in the late 90's? When Oil Companies become sooooooo wealthy they can have ALOT of influence. Both in other companies, AND in our Government!
What happened to the Cars that got 50mpg? Now they are selling "Go Green" Hybrids that don't get that.
(Money under the table?)
There are alot of answers that are sitting right under our noses in the form of undiscovered technologies. I believe we are too "programmed" by the doom and gloom of the media, and the pressure of the economy overall to really look.
What happened to the day when a man could go make a decent living for his family and do it on only one income? You better have some real skills and some tricks up your sleeve if you're going to do so.
Two incomes, both Husband and Wife are working these days. Then I ask, where does this leave the children?
The Children are our future.
I think we have too much government. Too many lawmakers making laws that take away our rights.
This post could go on forever, but I'm glad the bill didn't pass.