America In Crisis

09/25/2008 Human Observations
My United States of America faces an uncertain socio-economic future, because the foundation on which our society was built is composed of the iron of an almost democratic principle, mixed with the miry clay of an unethical financial system that is based upon greed. Being left out of the decision process, we American citizens must seriously consider how our lives and our society will change when we are told to “move on”; whether or not our hundreds of billions of dollars are given towards “the bailout of privately owned financial institutions”.
The working citizen will continue to pay into a tax base with every paycheck, so the “public servants” of government will continue to get paid regularly. The executives of high finance will also continue to get paid, either by our tax dollars at work, or amidst the chaos of bankruptcy. What we must observe is how the United States of America will continue, as an almost democratic nation, and as a society of free thinking individuals. Our version of civilization reflects the guiding principles of our cooperative coexistence, in this last bastion of combined independence and freedom in the world. Shall we continue to operate the business of our lives motivated by greed and the exploitation of any available vulnerability? Or will we finally choose to conduct our socio-economic operations in a manner that serves the freedom and betterment of every American citizen, rather than benefiting only those of power, wealth, and influence?
We must recognize that life in America has already changed. Our refusal to have acknowledged it sooner simply illustrates our national denial and delusion. It was determined back in the 1970’s to eliminate the middle class, leaving primarily an upper and a lower classification of citizenry. Many of us, rather than opposing this plan, sought to move up to a place amongst those of higher economic stature. We were disinterested in the prognosis for those who could not move up; we accepted their plight as “those less fortunate than us”. Well … soon a great multitude of us, who were on the way up, will find themselves amongst the less fortunate. Homes will be lost, retirement and financial instruments will be lost, and due to the failure of corporate devices, unemployment will dramatically increase. Will the cries of the coming hardship fall again on deaf ears? Perhaps this is what we brought onto ourselves by our own prior lack of economic compassion. The Beatles said it well, “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”.