Case for Self-examination

Foundation for Better Government

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November 15, 2014

A Case for Self-examination

By T.S.Khanna, November 15,2014

“I will do it alone.  I have the executive power.”  “We will fight back tooth and nail.”  All this is done at the taxpayers’ expense by the most highly paid  and privileged reps elected by “we the people” to serve us.

A government designed for checks/balances is now a collection of toothless tigers with a thunderous bark of their power but no constructive achievement to serve “we the people”.

In the destructive see-saw of power, people and the media find the excitement of a football game and the elected officials find an escape from the serious responsibility of government business and purpose.  The same excitement anesthetizes the people too much to see the damage it causes them.  The very values that made this country great are being eroded gradually.

Government performance at every level is deteriorating: Immigration policy in limbo for 15 years while the problem keeps growing worse; foreign policy uncertainties and reversals ignoring the national interests; abdication of responsibility of adopting and enforcing quality laws resulting in legalization of illegal drugs state after state, and turning of serious felonies into misdemeanors; intolerable level of indiscipline combined with a lowering level of education in public schools; non-affordable  student fees inflation at the universities; no control over health care and medicine costs.

It is clear that to keep democracy sustainable, it must be reexamined/refined from time to time.  This is the time.