At What Cost

As President Obama seeks to bring fiscal responsibility back to the White House, one is left wondering the future our nation will have.

The pols of recent past sacraficed the future to satisfy the demands of lobbyists. They mortgaged the nation's long term security at the whim of their own present day interests. We, the people, are left holding the bill.

Everything is in question. The economy, education, geopolitics, health care, energy policy, social security, national infrastructure, and on, and on, and on.

There are many to blame.

Partisan politics has blocked most attempts to pass tangible legislation over the past three decades. The American public has been too interested in our own selfish wants and needs at the sacrafice to the common good. Real leaders, to often, have been nowhere to be found.

America was caught flat footed after the fall of communism and the Soviet empire only to lose respect among many of our global bretheren in responding to WMDs in Iraq post 9/11. The health care system is bloated beyond repair. The education of our children continues to lag behind our competitors. Bridges fall down, roads stretch to nowhere as mass transit lays idle in the 21st century and only now do we get serious about global warming and our energy future.

Enough is enough. It is time to get real.