Productivity

True or False? A nation’s living standard depends on that nation’s collective and meaningful productivity.

History teaches us this basic truth time and time again.

Look at the weaker nations in Europe, like Greece, France, Portugal.  Or look the other way at productivity and living in Eastern Germany before and after the Wall “came down."  

Further Proof: When did China start to be a powerhouse? Only after backing away from some of its strict Communist ideas and simultaneous introducing incentives and personal motivations.

Why doesn’t a majority of our voters see this obvious truth in world history?  

Maybe it is just easier to watch football and count food stamps and hope that Big Government will take care of us when as we age.

Or look at the other end of the economic ladder: At the people who deal in “almost legal” but highly profitable rip-offs of the food stamp counters.

And there you have the problem -  the lack of knowledge of some at the bottom of the ladder and the “almost legal” activities  of people near the top.

When the number of these dangerous voters gets large enough to sway elections, we will then see the living standards in the US decline rapidly and the US influence in world affairs diminish accordingly.

Things haven’t been too bad since World War II ended in 1945, BUT there is no promise that the US, with all its faults should or will have the same force for good in the next 69 years unless we pull up our socks and change.