Americans are good, strong and successful. About this notion that the US is going in the "direction of eventual fiscal collapse", maybe we could agree that the wording should be "possible--" or "risk of fiscal collapse". No way in hell should we ever just through up our hands and say a collapse is inevitable. We are not doomed.
I sure disagree with the idiots that say America morally bankrupt and the way they harangue about the faults of the American people.
I see, Americans are the epitomy of perfection with no faults to be corrected. Strange how the Representatives we elect or more propertly allow to be elected to positions of power from among us can be so lacking isn't it.
Those Court decisions and acts of Congress that you were earlier complaining as not being in accord with Constitutional principles don't come for out of a vacuum my friend. They come form core failings in our own makeup that clears the path for such representation.
Americans are good, strong and successful.
And pretty much indifferent to there responsibilities in assuring good government.
No way in hell should we ever just through up our hands and say a collapse is inevitable.
So far I do not see anyone suggesting that is what we must do. I however do see many alert to a need for changes.
We are not doomed.
Without substantive change in the attitudes of the American people in regards their expectations of government and participation in the processes of government, I would say we are not in an upward path.
First change must come among the American people in core principals virtues that are being eroded and have resulted in the representation that we have elected to power in government.
We get the government we allow, for "they" come from us and are us.
It is insufficient to just sit back and let someone else take care of it, indifferent to the political process that puts them there.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato -
To change that government that change must come first from within us as the electorate and thus responsible for the government that exists, there is no where else for it to come from.