Forward vision is vital
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Editor,
We Reap What We Sow. Sometimes the crop is not very pleasant, ie: Rush Limbaugh’s present problems. In fact it can be downright horrible, but often it needs to play out despite its devastating nature.
Such is the case with much of what America is experiencing and facing right now.
The topics are many. I will name just five: nuclear weapons, huge debts, lack of jobs, environmental problems, decline in education.
Nuclear weapons: We have developed and produced them, stockpiled them, and they have become a threat to other countries. When a nation such as Iran wants them, we judge them as totally irresponsible and are even talking about using military force to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon. How about Russia? China? UK, France, Pakistan? India? Israel? North Korea? Who is and is not irresponsible? Who is the judge?
Huge debt: Very poorly managed fiscal policies. Too many wars. Greed and allowing large corporations to avoid large payments of federal income taxes through giant loopholes.
Lack of jobs: I have lived long enough to witness the great shift from management holding labor hostage to labor holding management hostage through unions extreme demands. Unfortunately in the latter case, management simply either ceased manufacturing their products or moved their manufacturing facilities overseas. Simple as that. Devastating as that. And manufacturing in America, as a large part of our economy, may not ever come back. We found no middle ground and are reaping the consequences. Environmental problems: As popular as it is to pooh-pooh global warming and the effects human behavior has upon the environment, the fact is global warming has been building for years and is now showing its face in ways which are becoming obvious and devastating in many cases. We are reaping years and years of ignoring the human impact on our environment.
Decline in education: This requires a very thoughtful and comprehensive overhaul of our total approach to education. The cost of higher education is, of course, one very important subject that must be addressed in some manner. But just looking at primary through high school, the overhaul has, among others surely, these components: teacher qualification, discrimination issues, giving children what they need, locally, rather than what is mandated by Washington, D.C., meaningful in-school responses to the great decline in family unity, nutrition, social issues, and the like.
My point is that forward vision is vital. Selfish based policies and legislation which affect large groups of people raise havoc in America.
We must develop the ability to look generations ahead and be honest and unselfish with what we are sowing today knowing that even though we may not be here for the harvest, others will.
Bob McClellan
Polson
