Why Do People Accept Amerca As A Degrading Society?

No one seems to really question it. It's the conventional wisdom, and everyone seems to accept it.

"We've got to cut back."

"We can't afford what we used to."

"The government must live within its means."

What I want to know it ........ why?

Why can we no longer afford to hire enough good teachers to educate our children? Why can't we keep our roads and infrastructure maintained? Why is it getting harder and harder for working families to pay their bills? Why do local taxes go up, and up, and up, but services get fewer and farther between?

Why can't our generation have the same pension and health benefits our parents enjoyed?

Why is the notion of a "safe" job, and a company looking after it's employees, about as old-fashioned as a buggy whip?

Why is "stay-at-home mom" a choice only rich women get to make?

And, more than anything, why the hell does everyone just accept that this is just the way that it is? WTF is up with that?

With all the advances in technology, and the huge rise in worker productivity over the past 30 years, we should be debating on how to allocate the bounty, not fighting over the scraps.

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