In Eugene Robinson’s Tuesday column, “Time for intelligent can kicking,” he offers the typical solution to our financial ills; “kick the can down the road,” as he put it. Then he makes another illogical statement, “First, do no harm.”
He is speaking of course of our national debt and the current budget deficit. But what he is really saying, is; “We have a life threatening cancer, but don’t make any incisions because it might hurt.”
The real problem in this country, both with the American people and politicians, is that they don’t want to reap what we all have sown, and that is excessive debt and a reliance on the federal government’s services. Everyone wants to cut spending as long as it doesn’t affect them.
America needs to take its lumps and feel the tremendous pain to heal this great country, which will
take a few years of discomfort and release once again the true American spirit with a much smaller government, and certainly a less intrusive one into our personal lives. We need to reduce our dependency on China and get back to a manufacturing base instead of just an information society with no real substance. We need to place tariffs on Chinese goods and start to make American flags in America and not in China.
When I pick up my father’s hand tools, they all say, “MADE IN USA” — that’s what we need to resurrect!
Maybe a depression is better than slavery where we all huddle around the barrel to keep warm and start over as a free people once again.
Roy Anderberg
Arlington
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