The Age
of Unreason.
I awakened one morning to find
myself in a strange new world. As I look
around the neighborhood, I discover adults and children wondering about on our
streets, gazing at a small electronic gadget and communicating in some
sort of butchered form of language called "texting."
Even the radio explodes with "hip hop"
which is supposed to be music and often is followed by some dude who talks in
rhyme - a commentary which is often dark
and abrasive. Incredibly, some of this
unintelligible stuff is presented with a prize by an annual music award
ceremony.
I am informed that thousands of
strangers from foreign lands are trespassing across our Southern border and
claiming sanctuary when apprehended.
Holding cells are overwhelmed and the court system is so backed up that
thousands of these migrants are turned loose in the US pending a court date
sometime between three and five years down the road. Administrative costs related to this illegal
migrant activity has exceeded $90 billion during the 2019 calendar year with no
end in sight.
Meantime, several States have offered
sanctuary and protection from deportation so long as illegal aliens limit their
criminal activities to a non-violent variety or a misdemeanor. Silly me: I thought it was a crime to take
up residence in the United States without first obtaining some sort of Visa,
Green Card or otherwise legal consent by our government to be here.
In spite of the fact this nation has
amassed a national debt of more than $21
trillion with annual interest payments exceeding $400 billion "we" give
away more than $40 billion in foreign aid every year.
Recently the President, republicans
and democrats managed to agree to spend $2 trillion for infrastructure repairs
within the US, but they could not agree to spend a few $-billion for a Southern
border wall. No one has identified where
the money is coming from.
Under the so-called "modern monetary theory"
advanced by some Democrats: "deficits are
not nearly as dangerous as we've been led to believe."
Stephanie
Kelton, an economist at Stoney Brook University, was quoted: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking of
the federal government as a household that has to repay its debt." Ms. Kelton contends the United States won't
default on its governmental debts because it can always print more money
through the Federal Reserve.
Ignoring the shootings at schools,
churches and synagogues, the thousands of illegal migrants at our door, the
horrific national debt, our federal government remains in grid lock between two
warring political parties.
Sadly, my country has fallen into a
new era we could call the "Age of Unreason" where planning,
intellect and policy appears to have nothing to do with basic intelligent
thought or the fiduciary responsibility of legislators to act in the best
interests of our nation.