Why We're Falling Behind.

Well, my favorite columnist, Tom Friedman said in the N.Y.Times this morning exactly what I have been trying to voice. I couldn't put it all together in my poor head. He explained that the problem with America isn't that we don't have the right system, because we do. It isn't because we don't have the best and brightest people, because we do. It isn't because we're not capable of doing anything we want, because we can. It's because we're abusing the system we have. Our politicians are more interested in beating each other then in saving the country. We have far too many people out of work, but instead of pulling together to fix the problem, our leaders are looking to take care of the "Party" and it's ideology. We put a man on the moon for goodness sake, but we cant fix our own infrastructure. So, where is this craziness leading? If we keep going the way we have, we'll be a third world country. Not because we can't do better, but because we refuse to do better. We whine about taxes, then turn around and disregard normal maintenance. We complain about how bad the scenery is while we throw trash out the window. We choke on pollution and the lack of jobs and let the whole green technology with it's jobs fly away to China. Until Washington stops playing politics and the public starts supporting the country, we'll continue to slide backwards. We'll keep getting passed by China, and a host of other countries who know how to pull together the way we used to do. Why does it have to be Conservative or Liberal? Why can't it be American? Which is part conservative and part liberal and partway between. Of course to do that, we'd have to get rid of most of the leaders we have now, including almost all of the ones running against them now. We'd need a completely clean slate of citizen leaders. Leaders willing to serve limited terms of office. So they can't be infected with the Washington Bug of corruption and power.