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America has no plan
And, wow, is it killing us
By Mike Meyer
What kind of world do we want to have? That’s an important question that really needs to be answered and the resulting answer turned into a broad definition before we start fixing what exists. Or before allowing random, less than knowledgeable people doing things that affect all of us.
In America we don’t have any plan. I don’t see anyone actually concerned with this. Politicians have “policies” or “A Plan for Healthcare”. Usually only one or two and those are usually so specific and based on unquestioned assumptions that they are worthless. Shouldn’t we have a general plan with subsequent adjustments for the country? Is this an outrageous suggestion?
The basis for human civilization is taking the time to figure things out. Our improvements in life, now fully expected to arrive weekly, are and must be the result of research, planning, more research, and testing. As we learn every time we try to organize something larger than a trip to the bathroom a little research and planning does wonders.
Of course ideology screws this up periodically and seriously. In the last four hundred years in both the West and East, Europe and China, there have been ideological problems with setting large plans, respectively. There are two ways to screw up a better future…
