Gas that costs $4 a gallon is only one in a series of instances throughout history in which Americans have known about impending crises but refused to act, or waited until the brink of disaster before taking action. Just as analysts predicted the mortgage market collapse and the gas price spike several years ago, so did previous generations' experts with the stock market crash of 1929 and the two world wars.
What does it take to get us to take action? How bad does our situation have to get? How can we resolve today's difficulties -- and prevent more in the future?
Hard Truths And Real Answers
People should have voted for Ron Paul in the primaries. He seems to be the only candidate that addresses the stuff that's going on, and provides real solutions. I think the truth of what's happening is too much for most people, so they ignored Dr. Paul, and called him a looney. But as gas prices rise, and our country goes deeper in debt with this indefinately progressing war, Dr Paul's words will ring truer and truer. I really don't know what is going to happen to this country now. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if at all.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson, 1791