LizziePooh is offline LizziePooh Post #1  August 5,2009, 7:55pm

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as I see it.

Give us your best essay on what you think is the main problem with America today. All essays must start with "The problem as I see it".


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The problem, as I see it, is summed up with the ideal that somehow, competition is bad. This ideal spreads so many ways. Part of this ideal, is this ideal to abandoned the free market - to give up the only power we have - the power of options. Like somehow the free market is bad and full of greedy people. That may be true on occasion but that very principal that profit is the goal gives you the power to set the standard of what you expect.

It amazes me how many people are fooled. They think they are improving things. Let's think like them for a minute. Let's take healthcare for instance, let's believe we do combine all of the obligations of the private sector into one government entity that is going to take care of everything. Why do people think they have managed anything in making our problems disappear? Why? There is absolutely not one thing about saving money in this decision, nothing about improving care - quite the opposite - nothing would make it less likely to improve, you only accomplished making it extremely costly and inefficient. All you managed to accomplish was to give up any right that you had to demand a certain level of service. How can you demand? You have no options - you gave them away. There is absolutely nowhere to go.

People want to blame the private sector for making a profit. All of sudden the word profit is interchangeable with greed -when the heck did that happen? Recently, there was actually something in the Wall Street Journal and it had to write that profit is OK. Really? We need convincing these days? What people fail to recongnize is that in the private sector, demand tempers profit. People having a choice allows them the power to demand. No choice, no power. Plain and simple

If your problem is that these "private companies" can't do the job, then why the heck do you think the government is going to solve it? Seriously, how can you be completely blinded to the fact that you will not have any power. All you accomplished was taking all of the power of each private company and rolling it up into one behemoth place of power. Like the government is somehow miraculously immuned to waste and greed- what the heck! Aren't they the parents of waste??? C'mon - how naive do you have to be? Because there is going to be this grand Utopia and all of sudden people are going to do what is right - for the better good - just because? Yeah right!

All you do is give up your real power by giving up your options - where are you going to go when there is a problem? How far are you going to get? You think voting gives you power. What power? The power to pay for it yourself but in a really roundabout way. And if that is not enough to mess you over, how's about paying for the roundabout way too. We like to call that roundabout way - taxes, government efficiency at work for you.

It always amazes me how people are so willing to trade their liberty for so-called security. And I can guarantee with absolute certainty - even though this just my opinion, every time you trade your liberty for security - you have lost.
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The problem, as I see it, is that the American people in general are impatient & unwilling to forego instant gratification. They don't want to invest in the future. They look for short term approaches to everything. Fix it now!! Even if it is not an effective way to fix it long term. Use the duct tape & it will get us by a little longer.

I have heard people complain about the DMV inefficiencies. Guess what??

Mine used to be a nightmare. About 5 years ago, they renovated it. Nice new building, computers, clearly marked windows to get the info that you need. You can sit until your number is called. They even have nice comfy chairs & a coffee shop. It used to be he ll. Now it is better than any bank that I have ever been in. Investment made all of the difference in the world.

Improvements are a good thing & you can only improve through change.
 
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The problem, as I see it, is that aggregate growth in the economy is, and has been, insufficient to absorb growth in the labor supply; consequently, real wages have fallen, leading to lost economic output and diminished quality of life.
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Thanks for making a post, guys. I hope others do, as well.
 
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