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THE PING PONG GAME
Since the founding of America, two major political philosophies
have been ping-ponging power back and forth without any major problems being solved. We still struggle with escalating
crime, unemployment, high taxes, poverty, the homeless, hunger, and the devastation of war.
We even have some things our founding fathers did not have,
such as AIDS, and an economic debt in the trillions of dollars. Is it possible for us to use our God given gifts
of logic, reason and common sense to create a new set of economic laws to follow, or are we somehow mysteriously
bound to using outdated methods and economic policies that defy logic, reason, and common sense?
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THE PING PONG GAME
My question to you is this. Should we blindly continue to follow today
an economic and political formula developed in the 18th century? A century without the radio, the TV, the computer,
the phone, the Internet and all the other technological marvels of today. What do you think, should we? Personally,
I don't think so. I think we should take a step back and objectively analyze the effects of those economic policies
as they impact us today? Don't you agree? If so, then just what is it that stops us from simply wiping the slate
clean, beginning anew, and bringing our economic policy in line with our technological advances?
If surveyed it is my belief that the majority of the American people
hold that as good as we have it here in this country, things can and should be much better. What would you say?
There is, or there is not any room for improvement? If you answered there is room for improvement! The next question
is this. How do we make these improvements? For some reason we have been unable to create significant change. We
still have poverty, crime, taxes, inflation, a national debt, go to war etc.
It also hasn't mattered who's in charge. We have had the republicans,
the democrats, the liberals, the progressives and the conservatives, in charge, and it seems that neither the party
nor the philosophy seems to matter. We still get the rich getting richer, the poor increasing in numbers and the
middle class bearing the tax burden. Could that be because no matter who's in charge, they all follow the same
economic formulas that have not worked in the past over and over and over again? Economic policies that at best
can only provide a temporary shift in benefits from one segment of the country to the other, but never lasting
significant benefits to all. Since this is true, and undeniably so. How does it make any sense to continue to do
things the same way in the future, if they have not worked in the past, regardless of what political party or philosophy
is in charge?
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