Our Leaders Are Lost

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I’m wondering if will be another generation before the stakes are high enough? As Will said, by then the damage is done. An EVOLUTION is now necessity. But isn’t that how it works? Not until life is truly threatened, do we see a jump in evolution, a mutation.

I would like to see our leaders rethink what is possible. Getting out of the box is difficult though when only 2 viable options exist. Republican or Democrat. Maybe a real 3rd party or even 4th party could be enough to shake things up. Government programs like “The New Deal” might be in order for the immediate future. Radical change… If we make a decision, It DOES happen overnight.

Will, I have a #5 for you: We need to have leadership that supports authentic living, specifically in the area of biopharmaceuticals. How many times a day do you see a drug company offering yet another way to self-medicate and tune out? A nation of people on antidepressants, sedatives and tranquilizers can’t stand up for themselves or anyone else. Our grandparents faced the inevitable challenges of life head-on, for the most part (What are they called now? Oh yes, the “greatest generation!”)and rebuilt a country ravaged by world war and economic depression.

Think this is a minor issue? visit www.medicationsense.com or “The Brouhaha Over Drug Ads” on www.nytimes.com, among others. We need to be awake and alive to secure our future and our children’s futures.

Will for President!

I was cheering you on until I read this comment - “Live teachers should become tutors and mentors to make up for the collapse of the supportive family”. Got to part company with you there - we need to restore the family, not look for alternatives. Teachers play an important role, but some things cannot and should not be delegated. I am with you on the rest, though.

You can have my vote, sadly it’s never been worth much more than my personal satisfaction.

You’ve got it: this is why the topics being argued over in public debates so often seem to be disinteresting.. It is far too rare that we see the characteristic of true modern day enlightened ideas and perspective shining through the BS of political issues that so many of us hold so dear to our hearts. Lets get to the root of the issues and stop kicking around at the surface.

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I guess the thing that amazes me most about this leadership thing is how little the public knows about how our government functions.

Everybody looks at and blames the President. The fact is our President only has three jobs: (1) He is the Commander In Chief of the armed forces (2) He is responsible for establishing U. S. Foreign Policy and (3) He is the head of the Executive Branch.

We have seen time after time the President ask The Congress for this and that and he doesn’t get it.

The Congress passes all of the laws and initiates all of the legislation which affect our every day lives. Just in the terms of the current President we have seen a Congress dominated by Republicans and Democrats. They both have been equally ineffective and incompetent. Yet we keep sending these idiots back to their Congressional seats year after year! It is amazing how many Senators and Congressmen have been in office for twenty or more years!

If we really want to have responsible leadership and take our country back to responsive, competent government leaders it seems as if we really ought to be more concerned who we send to the Congress. Regardless of the party, incumbents need to be voted out and a strong message sent to the new crew that they have one term to get some things done.

Since when has being a member of the U.S. Congress become a career? The congressional pension plan is probably the best, the most well funded plan in the country. It has never been raided by the Congress, (as they have done time after time with the Social Security Fund).

The Congress has never failed to give itself a pay raise, regardless the economic condition of the Country at the time. It appears that the only place I know of in the world where one gets a nice pay raise, a good expense account, and an unmatched pension plan for doing a lousy job is the U. S. Congress. We need to put a stop to it immediately.

Please don’t misunderstand, I am not saying that who we elect as President is not important, but that is only a maximum eight years, then the office must change hands, but the Congress goes on and on and the only way a congressional office changes hands is retirement, death, or something happening which is so embarrassing it prohibits running again.