Going for broke
We (the United States government) are over 18 trillion in debt. That's the biggest number you can imagine. And it does not include paying for all the promises we made; Social Security and Medicare, etc., which makes the number 5X bigger. It also does not include state debt. Politicians spent…
It just takes enough grit
If you are like a lot of others, you sometimes set goals and then don't achieve them. Perhaps your resolve wasn't really there in the first place and you made your goals lightly. Or perhaps like many others when you realized the sacrifice necessary to accomplish your goal, you lacked…
Living someone else's life
When we are kids, expectations get put upon us. When we get married that can happen too. Some of us wind up living a life we didn't choose. It takes guts to declare it's not for us and to walk away. Knowing what you do want and where you…
Fixing your spouse
Do I have your attention? (We talk about nearly everything on Think Daily!) Fixing your spouse? It's not going to happen, and trying is not going to make for a happy relationship. Consider this - you are the problem. Your failure to accept them unconditionally is the problem. The gap…
Find something you would die for…
We've all seen movies where two people are so in love that one would die for another. That's nice and all, and makes for a great movie. But a better way to go is to LIVE for the other person. In life you can experience, and care for, and grow…
Hiding in plain sight
Are the "secrets of success" closely guarded, made only available to the privileged? Not at all. In fact they are in plain view of everyone. That they are deceivingly simple makes them easy to miss or ignore. What do you already know about that you need to start doing or…
Easy to do, and easy not to do.
Living a successful life is not the result of 90 years of learning ten thousand things and struggling mightily with them. It's finding and doing a handful of easy and important things as a habit each day, and letting the results compound. Often these easy things are in the "everybody…
"I had a great day", or…
"I wasted my day". We've all had days where we felt one way or the other. Every action we take moves us farther away or closer to what we were meant to be. Your happiness is the indicator.
"Confirmation Bias"
This is when you attach more significance to information that confirms your preconceptions. Consider that you are seeing in the world what you believe you'd find. To see something better, you have to believe it's there first.
Nature is not human hearted
Humanity is part of the natural world on earth, but cannot defy its laws. Chemistry, geology, weather, physics, and cause and effect of the sciences will not change because we feel good or bad about how they affect our personal lives, or how intensely we feel these emotions. We must…
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This is so true. Are government is out of control. We need to clean house. It is time for the people to wake up and take back the government. Make America great again.
We would vote for you! -SERIOUSLY
Larry, politicians only job is to be re-elected. As a result, they promise us “stuff” and make commitments that they know cannot be paid for. But they do not care. They will be out of office long before any of these bills come due.
Want to know of another outrage? All federal, state and municipal pension systems are way, way underfunded. And the pension benefits and the post-retirement medical benefits that the municipal workers have been promised are unsustainable. But again, no one is feeling any pain, so no one cares. When the few politicians who focus on the issue raise it, they are shouted down by the municipal unions.
This whole thing is a mess!
David Gensler, MAAA, MSPA, EA
My fear is that we don’t stop the current path VOLUNTARILY- the reality is that fundamentally it cannot continue indefinitely it must change and if we cannot make change by choice it will be made for us and this country will become a footnote in history
Our society has a sense of entitlement. We vote not for the best candidate, but for the candidate that promises us the most. We are NOT entitled to a free cellphone, free health insurance, or anything but freedom… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You get the government you vote for. If we vote for hope and change in the future, then it better be backed up by a strategic plan that takes a hard look at the financial hole we have dug this country into, and offers a way out. I’m not talking about federal bankruptcy, but about making the hard choices so our children and their children won’t be left paying for our mistakes. BUT… would anyone vote for the candidate that offers us a bitter pill to swallow?
Totally agree…it is infuriating what is going on with our “representatives.” The only way to stop it is to limit the amount of money they get to spend.
I hate to say it but I feel the only way the madness will stop is through some sort of unrest. The people (payers) will have to resist the demands of our government (spenders) in order for it to stop and that will not occur peacefully. I hope I’m wrong.
I agree with all of the comments and find it heartening to know that others share the same fears and outlook as I do. No one can predict the future, but history all the way back to Rome has always proven that living beyond national means brings a society to its knees. Our debt, federal and states, plus all the unfunded liabilities are upward to 240 trillion. I believe that it will take the working and retired people of the private sector to stand together to make this change. Problem is that a significant, perhaps majority, of them are entitlement friendly and short-sighted, figuring they won’t get hurt. Nonsense – all do.
No generation should commit to financial obligations it cannot fulfill in its lifetime. That is where we are right now. We are stealing from my grandchildren (it’s personal with me!), and it is a disgrace. Our greatest moral obligation as a nation is to clean up this mess so that our next generations can live free and prosperous lives.