Who is to blame?

The United States government is a slow nonreactive behemoth, ill-equipped to deal with the issues of modern life. Our technological advancement is growing at an outrageous rate and knowledge and information is more shared and wide spread than ever before and yet our government, created three centuries ago, is trying to keep pace. The reality is that it can’t.

Issues from the economy to the environment are stacking up, and yet our politicians are arguing more about the President giving the Dali-lama an award or the validity of ancient cultures more than checking the oval office or finding a solution on how to save a healthcare bill that would protect millions of uninsured children. The question is; where does the problem lie? Is there an inherent flaw in the system or do we look to ourselves as the culprits?

The system itself is flawed and to say that there is some perfect government is irrational. The problem may rest in the shear mass of the federal system. Do we really need 437 people in the House of Representatives? More isn’t necessarily better and they don’t always represent their constituents as they should. Perhaps there should be some way of telling our politicians what we feel as a nation should be the priorities. If the people think that a decree that water is better than Gatorade then so be it but it should be something that the people want. The fact that the government is more concerned with a nation on the verge of civil war on the other side of the planet more than me paying into a bankrupted Social Security is very concerning to me, and no one is there to hear my outcry, or act on it when they do.

I think there real issue should be placed on us. We did elected a man who makes up words to president 2000 but we as a nation did elect this same man to stay in office. The American people hold the most power in the entire county but as a majority chose not to use it. We as a society are vastly uneducated on the topics when it comes time to vote and apathetic do so as whole because of a broken system. Maybe we need to hit rock bottom before we can wake up and take action. Maybe in some sad way we like the comedy that is produced off an ignorant person as our leader. But maybe there will be a grassroots movement to educate the population on just who holds the power. Maybe the system that has worked for this long will continue forever, and in a time of great peril come to the rescue of its people, and those in charge will finally tackle the issues that plague its citizens and not its special interest.