TRUE SOLUTIONS

Good evening my friends,

A conversation with a friend this evening reminds me that I need to reiterate some things about finding true solutions to our problems. And that is that 99% of the time, the real, common sense solution to any given problem lies somewhere in the middle. Somehow we have become radically polarized. On one hand you have the radical left. Most of whom are actually socialists, whether they realize it or not. Many are radical environmentalists, tree huggers, animal rights activists, etc. Then you have the radical right. The Libertarians and anarchists who think there should be no government at all.

Let's take one single issue as an example - jobs. There is more than greed involved in American corporations moving jobs overseas, although greed IS the bottom line. And that is the amount of government regulation involved in producing anything in this country today. Or conducting any business in America today. Take construction for example: need a new building for your business? You'll have to obtain a dozen different permits from a dozen different agencies. Each one can cost from hundreds to thousands of dollars, require engineers to meet a dozen different, and sometimes conflicting, requirements. Inspections by a dozen different inspectors, and on and on. What is the flip side though? Pollution like China - so bad that people are keeling over in the streets. Drinking water poisoning the populace. Unfortunately, due to human nature (see previous post on secular humanism) we MUST have a certain amount of government regulation. We need a military, we need roads, we need police protection. BUT, our government has gone overboard. We need to get back to the middle of the road.

Just wanted you all to know I am not a radical. I try to keep my proposals to fix our problems simple and real. Simple, but not easy for sure. People will suffer individual hardships from the solutions I set forth. But we have no choice, it's do it or the entire country goes bankrupt, and that's going to be one hell of a lot harder on people than not getting a raise for the next few years or taking a cut in your food stamps and rental assistance.

Wake up Washington and state capitals, you've sold our future for many years, and guess what?
The future is now here. Now you have to pay the piper.

Dumb Farmer