The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Casey ·
February 28, 2012 at 4:19pm
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Comments:
Jun '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Accountability. Those in power are not accountable for their actions. The higher you go, the less accountable you are. Why should you worry about your decisions when, no matter how bad they may be, they have no effect on you.
Jun '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
soft expectations of effort.
Jun '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Biggest problem: Satan. I tend to agree with Rick Santorum about that. Was always America's (and the World's) biggest problem and always will be. Today's additional problem is that we're forgetting the solution to the first problem.
May '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Entrenched interests. Too many entities that are too big and powerful to be reformed. Medicare and social security are going broke but they're too entrenched for anybody to try to reform or fundementally change them. Corporations and government are now too cozy with one another thus sucking the life out of what should be a free market system. We used to withstand depressions and recessions because we were innovative and flexable. I fear both are being suffocated due to too many powerful and entrenched interests that will fight tooth and nail on any kind of necessary reform.
Jun '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
The loss of the sense of America's greatness.
The steady "America is awful" drumbeat of the Left in the media, the university and education complex, the entertainment industry, and the arts community has spawned a world in which young people are completely indifferent/unaware of what America means and in which Occupy Wall Street inanity passes as heroic vision.
Oct '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Something boring that no-one pays much attention to because it doesn't connect to strongly held personal beliefs.
Jun '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Barrack Hussein Obama . . . ding! ding! ding!
Alex, I'll take Politically Correct Speech for a hundred please.
Oct '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Legislative delegation and judicial activism. The federal government has lost too much of its democratic accountability.
Jun '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Ricochet members with cat avatars. The horror.
More seriously. The breakdown of the American family and marriage. Illegitimacy rate of 42%; 15 million Americans living in cohabitational arrangements; 20 million American kids being raised by one parent.
Jan '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Panem et circenses - or, the growing number of people who accept being dependent on government handouts. Not just welfare recipients; I'm including recipients of outrageous state-funded pensions, those infamous unfireable teachers in "rubber rooms", and those civil servants who are massively underemployed. Please note: I'm not slamming all of any class. There are people on welfare who will be off it as soon as they can find a job, there are knowledgeable and hard-working teachers and civil servants. But I'm afraid that the number of people dependent on the State, either through direct subsidies or indirectly through the power of unions and the plethora of bureaucracies, may have become so great that we will not be able to reverse the growth of the totalitarian state until it collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.
Feb '12
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
The current WH occupant; followed by judges that legislate from the left without regard to the Constitution, or the people's will.
May '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Liberalism.
Jan '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
On second thought, I'll go with Paules, who made a concise point while I was blathering on as if paid by the word.
Politically Correct Speech.
Indeed.
If we can't talk about the rest of our problems in public, what chance do we have of solving them?
Sep '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Illegitimacy. It is the root cause of the rise of all social pathologies and is therefore the root cause of an insufficient tax base. The idea that single parenting is equivalent to married parents is a crock. You cannot create an equal quality product with half the labor force and half the resources. It simply cannot be done. The breakdown of the family has robbed of us of our most precious resource - a large, high-quality labor force.
I've done it both ways - single and married and have spent time doing a business case analysis of how parenting works as if I were producing a retail product, which I am. The mechanisms of failure are simple and easy to understand. The national statistics are incontrovertible and from of an unimpeachable sample size. The breakdown of the family from the libertinism of the 1960s is the #1 problem in America. There is no second place.
Edited on February 28, 2012 at 4:45pmFeb '12
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Soon-to-be crippling national debt.
Jan '12
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Apathy. I get a sense that many people have completely lost faith in our political system and simply feel their voice or vote no longer matters. Just look at the percentage of people who do not even vote! Along this line as well, our youth have far too much. Many do not know what it means to work for something and this can certainly be seen in poor test scores and overall work ethic outside the home.
Feb '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Failure of the Republican Party to field a viable candidate.
Mar '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
The loss of the notion of public virtue.
Mar '11
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
If the Bible teaches anything, it teaches that Satan is the enemy of liberty. A country in bondage to vice is incapable of promoting individual liberty.
Dec '10
Re: The Single Greatest Problem in America Today Is _____________.
Failure of the federal government to pay off my mortgage, my son's student loan debt (he hasn't graduated yet, but still), my son's tuition/living expenses while still in college, my groceries, my electrical bill, my natural gas bill, my health/auto/life/homeowners insurance, my personal gasoline bill...