My American Living

Living in eastern part of Virginia, my life has rewarded me pleasant activites of beach walks, stunning historic sightscenes as well as some disturbring spectacle of thefts, armed burglaries, shootouts, drug problems, and more problems associated to capitalism. This big community has bundled my living with the package of blessings and tragedies.

Residing only three hours away from Washington D.C, now and then, I hear endless political pledges over which political party is going to take a bigger stake in brining safer communites. Here is the sanity part: God gave us two ears and two eyes, and sometimes I wonder this is why he made us that way, more or less to save ourselves from political gimmicks. Between wiping out swine flu, passing healthcare reform bill, mitigating recession, downsizing troops to send to war, all needs expressive concerns. Of course. All should include in our national priority list.

How soon are these problems going to be fixed that’s a whole new ball game. For now, all these problems definitely have imparted a brand new responsibilities among our congressmen and congresswomen, to raise millions of dollars to nominate themselves for next congressional candidates. For sure, this has kept them super busy. I bet! their abilities to raise money have never mattered more than today. This is no joke.
Let the problem of high unemployment and deficit budget run. It has been running one way or the other, we can always counterclaim unsatisfactory outcomes to our previous administrations. Why not? It has become the basic tradition of our system for years.

From class room to the Congressional floor, we reward publicy, take pride and award honor medals, power and positions for the excellence. It's like a society in general -- capitalism in the classroom to Capital hill you might call it. Oh, wait: how about the people, who felt left out, and thus have carried a bruised feelings.

The truth is, we have made no good places for losers. This scheme is so effective that these losers might end up causing extra damage to themselves and to the society thus increasing the substantial financial and social costs to the communities, states, and to the nation ultimately.

This is a fine example of why our crime rates have sky rocketed today, why there are more high school dropouts than ever before. Approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school. We are not only running budget deficits but soon we will out run of money to fund nation’s penitentiaries. Imagine yourself living in place crowded with felons. Sounds like, we are welcoming big masses of our own misfortunes.

Increased crime rates has spurred residents; business and government into action to improve safety and security and thus have hyped the cost to direct law enforcement resources and priorities. Moral of the story, one way or the other we are becoming an unwitting tool of capitalism.

Contemplating I asked myself, how healthy is to live with this level of Capitalism? Where is it eventually going to lead us? It has not left any places that I have occupied. I feared that it may not have already built a culture of greed among us. Time has come to wake up and ask a question to ourselves is big always the better. Remember there is no silver bullet to this mess that we have created unless we don’t pay attention and participate more in our political system.