Tragically too many U.S. government officials are personally invested in the current financial and military programs to address the critical needs of our nation and the world relative to full employment, resource diminishment, support of the natural habits, population growth and climate change while knowing fully well the dire consequences of their neglect. They are deliberately putting the present and future generations at risk for their own private aims. As such, their blatant disregard represents a failure of the worst sort conceivable.
By their refusal to take the lead in preparing the U.S.A. and the world in general for vastly harder times ahead and by their not trying their utmost best to offset the difficulties as much as possible now, they show nothing short of gross ineptitude verging perhaps on criminality. Especially this is the case as they continue to loot the nation on behalf of Wall Street and global consortiums alike rather than earnestly serve the people who voted them into office.
At the same time, the majority of U.S. citizens, themselves, are to blame for their leaders' dereliction of duty. Sadly, the public has not sufficiently demanded accountability.
Nonetheless, Americans can try to keep money in their communities by purchasing regionally made goods as much as possible, involve in activities that create local industry and agricultural ventures, and attempt to delimit their involvement in anything having to do with the sorts of gargantuan commercial enterprises that, obviously, were created for one purpose only -- to benefit the oligarchs at the expense of everyone else. Naturally, these actions can take place at the same time that people rise up to collectively command that government officials follow their lead.
Yet, they don't, for now, appear capable to do so. All considered, they have forgotten Andrew Jackson's caution: "But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." Instead, they seem only too willing to passively accept worsening peril rather than to courageously press for radical changes so that their nation can be set on a new and better course.
This in mind, they must in unison begin to soon insist that human and planetary well being be valued, along with profits. If not, we and future generations will all pay the price -- one that will, without doubt, be far too great to bear.
References:
[1] "Speech: Professor Penny Sackett, Chief Scientist [for Australia], Science and Parliament: Engaging in a changing climate (17 March)" at click here Beddington: World faces 'perfect storm' of problems by 2030 ... (click here and John Beddington is UK's chief scientist), A global temperature rise of 7C will render half of world's ... (click here
,Ceilidh ... Climate fears 'being realised' (click here and Climate Change: $, Food, our lives, our homes, ... « Green Res... (click here
[2] Earth Policy Institute Book Byte - When Population Growth an... (www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch06_ss5.htm).
[3] U.N.: Young and Old Boom on the Road to 9 Billion - Dot Eart... (click here
[4] An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth - Na... (click here and BBC NEWS | UK | Wildlife populations 'plummeting'
[5] Commentary :: More class warfare...and we're losing (http://www.njpp.org/com_kolesar.html), the reviews at Amazon.com: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich ... (click here Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty In The World by Michael ... (click here and The Corporation (click here
[6] French Workers Strike in 2nd Round of Protests Against Sarko... (click here
[7] FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars, "Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon."
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