Worst of the worst?
If people are asked what is the worst thing that has happened to the United States over the past couple of decades, some would say the wars we've found in the Mideast and elsewhere, others would say the slow, steady destruction of the environemnt and global warming. Others would cite the bitter partisanship in Washington.
But how about the massive federal deficit, now pegged at around $9 trillion, and our refusal to even attempt to pay it off? Reagan launched it with his economic voodoo proposals but since then both Democrats and Republicans in the White House and in Congress have kept it going, although Bill Clinton and the Newt Gingrich-era Congress made moves in the right direction and actually slowed it down. Bush II has acted as if it wasn't there.
The worst part of it is not even the debt but our endless credit card mentality, somehow developed over the past 30 years. This isn't the America you read about in the history books. Is it?
Jim Therrien