Seeking Miss Liberty

Of current times:
Many on the watchtowers are hailing or predicting or lamenting or warning of an impending crisis our nation and world faces due to the 'coming to maturity' of much debt to which our nation has become beholden or responsible for or burdened by. The greater outcry points to the speed by which this indebtedness has come about. The faint of heart probably shouldn't review the web page which shows the USA debt clock racking up over ?? - it was $54,000 a second about nine months ago. Might be close to 58 K by now. That is 60 times a minute every minute of the day our debt and interest to pay it off increases by that amount.
The sums are more than likely accurate though many would they were not. It would be rousing if we were seeing two or three misplaced or erroneous zeros. That scenario is unlikely. We will want to lop off ten zeroes by the time ....
How then we are asking did this come about? In much of this ado citizens of this nation will find that participation in a global community is not accomplished duty or dues free. Participation internationale is voluntary and requires internal financing. Monetary funds exist only through sponsorship and contributing. That money normally would not be seen to be cycled back in a financial sense but more in the direction of cause and effect. If support given struggling entities (nations) succeeds, future times witness the harvest of those invested resources in the form of greater trade or enhanced ability on the part of the once assisted nations to stand forth when other less fortunate populations or national entities require assistance.
In much of the above America has seen the necessity of so participating, at times to added distress, other times to success but always we feel with the intent to engender that which will be right as stewards under our Creator's guidance. The cost of the wars which have given us much of the debt with which we now find our country aligned has been great indeed. Expand that consideration of war to other fronts where we as a nation seek to act as fiduciary.
In that we will be examining all that has to do with regulating traffic crossing our international borders, controlling materials of every ilk with emphasis on those whose chemical natures require much diligence and speciality of handling, dispersal and continual surveilance. Add to that the continuing need of educating and establishing guidelines for the all that involves life and living in relationship to one another in community and state. Dealing with what has come to be incessant resistance by some (groups) to that which is considered obviously required or pragmatic has been costly. Nefarious acts alone have cost billions in the past decade. We as taxpayers have become hostage to the effects of extortionists. The cost of healing and care for health has skyrocketed to levels where the very purpose and delivery of that for which the rendering institutions have come into existence is cost prohibitive to those most in need of such service. Of what value is a treatment when its cost results in the victim needing such leaving the healing center less able to exist because of the weight which the cost of the treatment has cast upon them?
These things have crept in slowly during the twilight times of societal alertness. They have become present due to the fact that our country's culture was founded and principled by the fundamentals of the honor system, the golden rule and even the Ten Comandments. The thread of feasiblility running through all that bases such envisions a peoples strong of will, constitution, mind and spirit who carry the torch which was passed by ancestry. That torch is our dearly loved freedom. The honor system has allowed all that was built in our country to come into being and the fractures it has suffered have in part been brought by violations of that beneficent system of life. Oh it will happen wherever honor is required or expected to be the binding cord which makes it possible. It happens on a large scale when leaders display other than exemplary behavior in relation to the public or honorary resources and those following and seeing corruption happening assume they will as well take what they want, do as they will regardless of community consequences. Too often the oner of being caught at what they might do is what drives them to success in such, not the worth of what is being sought or taken or done.
In total, along with the trifling number of errancies mentioned above, it is this sort of movement amidst our living which has caused and is represented by dollars due which is the cause of the gigantic debt we now, as a nation, stand beneath. Just thought you'd like to know.
The summary is the situation as seen from a viewpoint encompassing the whole of what has come to be and not from citing the various individual incidents causing accumulation in part but adding in the end to the accrued indebtedness. The point is, it appears that when the dollar amounts being dealt with, considered and actually transacted reached the level of staggering proportions there were amongst those dealing with such sums, individuals who felt that their assigning to themselves generous but unwarranted rewards was of merit. Thinking so they proceeded to deal themselves fractions of the monies passing through their hands. In past eras it was termed embezzlement and when corrected such acts were countered by imprisonment and other penalties. Where it has headed today and how it is or will be termed is anyone's guess. Those participating have stealthily insured their acts with wordsmiths who precede public exclamation and protest with anticipatory interplay. The favor exchange mills work overtime to provide spin enough to cover many illicit moves within the financial framework that has come to be.
If such were beneficial to the economy it seems the economy then would be in great shape and working people would abound and life would be good. But that is not the case. The most often heard financial commment to day is; 'The rich get richer while the poor get poorer'. In most cases rich people are smart people but are they that much smarter? Is the human mind so weak that when given the responsibility to handle giant dollar amounts a percentage of the handlers cave in to temptation and feel that since the figures are so large and the amounts so great that a few million here and there will never be missed? Have they been granted or have they just taken the laxity of estimating rather than accounting accurately for our hard earned and paid tax money and then assigned themselves the feeling that their oversight is simply a little gratuity taken for the pressure of having been exposed to such ludicrous amounts of money? What are the millions of people who have thereby been effected supposed to feel back at that?
The impending issue comes to be; Does corruption in high places lead to subversion in low places? Will infraction lead to reaction? Will the innocent bear the injustice of injury meted out inselectively, blindly spewed from angry mobs? Let us hope that instead, a means of repairing damage, repaying self indulgent generosity and restoring acceptable reality will prevail. History is filled with fallen societies which failed in the making of counter measures.