People are angry. People in the presidential administration are angry. People in Congress are angry. People in Canyon, Texas are angry. The country voted for “change” in 2008 and then decided that change is not always that best thing for a country. The foreign policy, economy and health care system have all undergone a facelift. This leaves some people asking if this was an elective surgery or a necessity for quality of life.
The U.S. removed itself from Iraq leaving the Iraqi people without a stable government and no protection against an invasion of radicals. Thousands of American troops are now home safe, but are thousands of Iraqi, faced with partial abandonment by those that had been there for years, ready to stand alone? Despite the billions of dollars spent on the war, people have to ask themselves if leaving an area we invaded because it is no longer economically prudent for us to be there is appropriate. American is heralded as a Christian nation, but how Christian like is it to leave a people in the ruins of a war we started and failed to clean up after ourselves?
In addition to war, there has been ongoing turbulence within our nation. The economy was ransacked by the unwise business choices of banks and the undue narcissism of the American pubic. Banks loaned too much money, individuals borrowed too much money. The whole economy ended up on the brink of disaster. That’s were the bailouts came swooping in to save…. the banks. Despite the fact that individuals were struggling to pay their outrageous mortgage payments, the banks and the business got the vast majority of aid from the U.S. government. Although the house market crisis has subsided, people are still defaulting on loans made during the crisis. The banks and businesses may be out the woods, but the people remain in the thick of it.
Health care reform has been heralded as a positive change by some and a dastardly mistake by others. Regardless of how health care reform will positively impact the economic situation in the future, it is hard to rationalize that now was the right time to implement such a plan. Some would ask if not now, when would we ever be able to pass legislation like this health care plan? It would make more sense to pass a bill like this when we could afford the hit to our pocket books. In good times, they [the government, the man, whoever] say the American public is complacent and unwilling to accept change. America is willing to accept progress because progress is prudent change.
It’s time we stop trying to celebrate our ability to change in times when it is advisable to maintain the status quo. The status quo can be a safe hold for people in times of uncertainty that is out of the government’s control. It’s not very smart to take a bunch of people who are in the midst of a tsunami and start rocking their boat even more. This is essentially what the government has done to the American people. I’m not saying things are terrible, but I am saying there’s a reason why it looks like so many Americans are holding on for dear life.
Essentially, for everything there is a season. Some of the recent decisions the government made were rushed through instead of being allowed to take their natural course.
