Our Institutions are Failing Us

The shooting in Florida this month reminds me again that our institutions are failing us.  The FBI was alerted, the police were alerted, multiple times, but nothing was done. Police on site failed to control the scene; with the shooter still unidentified and free students ran from the school in all directions while the police watched.

Recently Vladimir Putin announced the development of weapons systems that basically make half of our military obsolete.  Why did our intelligence agencies with their multi-billion dollar budgets fail to detect this?  If half of what he claimed is true, our aircraft carrier groups could not survive the first few weeks of a shooting war.  Our missile defenses also could not stop these weapons which can be fired from a multitude of locations, fly long range, fly at super high speeds and evade radar detection all the while homing in with nuclear or conventional warheads on a specific target.

Axis of Evil

I am thinking there should be a new axis of evil enshrined for America.  Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump conspiring to make America small again.  First Bush with his trillion dollar invasion of the Middle East.  That money was robbed from our economy and the economy of our future.  Add to that his expansion of Government with the so-called Department of Homeland Security.  Second we have Obama with his insidious increases in regulations over every area of our lives.  The idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant is absurd, but it provides an excuse for a raft of new regulations.  And his embrace of identity politics, a sure fire way to divide and diminish and something based on the ideas of victimhood, and blame assigned to artificially created identity groups.  Finally we have Trump who has blown the Federal deficit sky high and now is trying to trash the economy a la Smoot Hawley with tariffs on steel and aluminum.

It is time for the American people to demand major institutional change because our country is at risk.