System Anomalies: Social Decay

Instant Gratification Dept: The United States now is in a shockingly deteriorated condition. It is debt-ridden, hobbled by grievous failings in honesty of government, integrity of the justice system, competitiveness of the education system, anomalies in immigration policy, insupportable health-care costs, a presidency that has almost no credibility, a foreign policy that has foundered on the appeasement of Iran as well as absurd nostrums such as the pursuit of a non-nuclear world and the war on global warming and an economic policy that has been an epochal failure. The second half of the double dip yawns before us like the Grand Canyon, and it will be deeper and longer than the first, until leadership provides the radical solutions that are required, according to Montreal Gazette. America's problems are not imperial overreach or social decay, which have brought down the world's previous leading nations and peoples; they are profound but corrigible public-policy errors. The nation was transformed into a white-collar fool's paradise, where lawyers bill $1-trillion a year, manufacturing departs and too few people are actually doing anything useful. The result: no saving, little investment and instant gratification on borrowed money and as one whose recollections of the American presidency go back to the august, relatively tranquil, unchallenged majesty of the terms of General Dwight D. Eisenhower-- and of the respected ex-presidents living in that era, Herbert C. Hoover and Harry S Truman -- I can only look with dismay and amazement at what has happened to that great office. It is now clear that era marked the end of a golden age of the U.S. presidency. The United States is blundering through its fourth consecutive failed presidency, and the economic apocalypse that is about to occur may be the only way, since decades of less soul-shaking opportunities have been squandered, of restoring America and its headship of state, to the practical and moral strength of former times. As reported in the news.
@t american presidency, herbert c hoover