Learned hopelessness

We love these isles for what we are as a people located in the northwestern Pacific. There’s a lot of empathy and strong affinity with “Our Ways,” however often a bit tentative on some fronts. It seems that self-inflicted inclement weather has occasionally derailed what would have been better dispositions that hailed from our hearts and sober island intuition.

People at the helm have been basking in their suspect “solutions-driven…” mantra that has lost its luster. It’s literally history! Dazed, they are scurrying helter-skelter to avoid the bankruptcy that trails them everywhere. The beastly monstrosity wasn’t what they’ve promised.

Amidst their (elected officials) disorientation, most decent citizens are not ready to accept ill-fated dispositions with tacit approval. I hear the loud silent voices of folks everywhere, revolting silently with sharp frustrations ready to inflict change to better their lot. More than a decade of salary stagnancy is no longer tolerable. The heat has steadily picked up steam. We shall see it turn into a storm sooner than later.

Beyond the vast expanse of the sea, I know of highly intelligent and educated indigenous folks who have made major accomplishments in their careers in communities across the country. From the military to medicine, engineering, nursing, etc. Our people have excelled in umpteen ways we can’t understand or appreciate given the distance away from home. Definitely, they shine like the morning star we see at dawn.

Interesting how this pattern of excellence seems totally missing right here at home. It’s troublesome knowing the sufficiency of talent that we could organize to plan the destiny of these isles. Nevertheless, it seems we’re caught, time and again, in some weird inclement weather, stifling progress that fails to improve the lot of our people.

The constant imposition of this weather is often repeated as to hone the sense of “learned hopelessness.” Trust me. We can inflict change for the better. It can be done, collectively!

Destructive federal policies

The centralization of power in Washington has also enlarged the federal bureaucracy as to attempt dictating everything in our private lives. Though D.C. is a complete failure in matters that are best left for decision at the state level, liberals think D.C. should provide everything!

Immigration is one such issue. The various federal agencies have never had a cohesive policy on illegal immigrants. The miscommunication has resulted in the release of hardcore criminals into the streets that end up killing law-abiding Americans.

This grants stronger argument leaving disposition on immigration at the state level. For instance, Texas could easily dispose of illegal immigrants effectively just as soon as crossings occur. The feds need time to figure out which agency takes the lead, if at all.

Here at home it’s understood that the economy is closely tied to disposition of labor needs. Satisfying former representative George Miller’s assertion of human rights violation only satisfies his labor union bosses at our expense. Clever! Admittedly, though, there were violations of rights we simply ignored while the enemy was busy documenting them.

I waited around for some reasoned fight from local leadership but there’s total muted complacency on this issue. It goes to show how easily we buckle in servility on highly destructive federal policies. This needs to be understood and reworked by all worthy of the use of the political armor of representation.

Parental challenges

There are a myriad of competing interests for quality parental time with their children. Amidst the derailing distractions, we quietly quiz the communal demands of culture—to help others—versus what the educational system imposes that largely revolves around individualism.

More often than not we simply flow with the tide—the education of our children—that focuses on core courses and some physical education. The added parental conditioning is success where education simply opens the way for better life for the kid upon graduation from college.

The constant grind for individualism often conflicts with expectations at home. But this too has faded with the single gratification that our kids have finally attained their college education. They become the pride and jewel of the family. It remains a bothersome personal conflict of sort.

Challenge:

With insolvency enlarging like chronic gout around our lower extremities, taxpayers watch intently what imperial Capital Hill would do to cut the cost of government operations. Will it be austerity, reduction in force or a loan to cushion operations cost? Which one is the less disruptive, politically?

Austerity is a wonderful polite nicety measure that doesn’t resolve the mounting deficit spending. Need we have more than 3,000 government employees? What have they done collectively to improve the wellbeing of families?

RIF is a tough call, given the fact that city hall has become the largest employer of political cronies and loyalists. So it’s treated like some filthy leper! It looks attractive for purposes of controlling wild expenditure but politically damaging. So whose interest factor into this blurred thinking? Taxpayers or Republican loyalists honing a specialty refining the art of “do-nothing?”

This loot is best left in the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who do backbreaking jobs to bring home the bacon doing real work. Think of how much it would have helped your familial obligations over loose spending on useless political loyalists.