Remembering
This week marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Peral Harbor. Americans went to war as a result, and the “Greatest Generation” was the key to victory over Hitler and Tojo - who led their countries to defeat. Fast forward to the present day and ask yourself, does America have another “Greatest Generation” to lead during these trying times? Based on the current state of the Nation, the answer is no.
The feckless idiocy that populates the executive branch of the Federal government is breathtaking. The country is treated to a constant drumbeat of a moronic spending bill, aka, the “Build Back Better Bill”. This now 1.75 trillion-dollar bill includes 500 billion dollars to attack climate change through some nebulous green energy funding. Problem is that there is no specificity to it. According to Joe Biden the passage of this boondoggle will lead to national sunshine and lollipops. Meanwhile, the real problems the Nation faces go unattended.
Anyone heard Joe or his even more unpopular Vice President speak out about the crime wave sweeping every major Democrat run city in the United States? Nope. How about Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer, or the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi expressing their outrage? Chances are the Sphinx in Egypt will condemn the chaos in America’s streets before these two opine. Not one of these four leaders would ever qualify for membership in the “Greatest Generation”. Also included would be the mayors of major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and their local district attorneys.
The over reaction to the needless death of career criminal, George Floyd, fueled the “Defund the Police” insanity. Every politically correct liberal loon, aided and abetted by an equally clueless media, declared that all police were evil and what was needed was less cops and more sympathetic social workers. Naturally the criminal element seized on this weakness, jumped on the bandwagon of smash and grab, brazen daylight robberies of diners and thuggery. Because the progressives relaxed bail and charging standards, the perpetrators spent less time in jail than it takes to order a Big Mac.
What’s in play nowadays is the “Ostrich Syndrome” (OS), a condition that prominent progressive politicians suffer from when their head is in the sand or another places. The likes of Rep. Sandy Cortez who majored in attendance at Boston University, the refugee from the movie Beetlejuice, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, or Lenin’s grandson Bill DeBlasio of New York City are just a few of the staggeringly stupid city leaders who are known sufferers of OS. Those who voted for these ignoramuses to represent them are equally culpable for the crime wave chaos infecting the Nation. Bet you can’t guess who’s now crying for more police?
That’s not the only problem Americans have to deal with. The border continues to leak like a sieve. Record numbers of unvaccinated illegal immigrants are invading the Nation while Nero Biden fiddles. He appointed that known expert on the border, Kamala Harris to manage and solve it. She’s missing in action, was last seen on a milk carton. No real solution in sight with the current crew steering the ship of state.
Regarding borders, does it seem that Joe and the gang are more concerned about the Russian/Ukrainian border than our southern border? Maybe Joe would be well served to spend two hours on a Zoom call with Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico, solving the drug trade, the human trafficking crises and stopping the invasion. Nah, he’d rather shoot the breeze for a couple of hours with Putin. Befuddled Biden should send the Ukrainians a lot of anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. That would give the crime boss in Russia pause. The recent foreign policy moves by this regime would make the Keystone Kops look like a SWAT team.
When Joe declared war on the American fossil fuel industry on his first day in office by executive order, that action is responsible for the present-day record gasoline prices. His solution, dip into the national reserve to release 50 billion barrels of oil, a three-day supply given current consumption. Brilliant. Wonder if he might reverse his orders instead of begging the Saudis to pump more oil. Not a chance given the zealot advisors surrounding him.
The resolve, the backbone, the focus that enabled the United States to defeat the Axis Powers in World War Two is absent from Washington DC. The solution to the current national malaise is not to have the President running around reading a teleprompter, blowing blue smoke about spending trillions on special interest programs but rather tend to the critical issues citizens care about. Unfortunately, Joe doesn’t have the genes of a “Greatest Generation” member and that’s the biggest problem the Republic has.