Unpleasant Truths For A Nation In Denial

Think about how bad so many of us Americans have it, and then think about how we only have it as good as we do because we are massively exploiting labor across the globe, and you will have some idea of how messed up our system is. Once you realize we live as well as we do only because we are rapidly consuming our non-renewable resources, you will understand how unsustainable it all is. And just think that we’re living with whatever luxuries and even necessities we now have only because our nation has put it all on the credit card, to the tune of a $35 trillion debt. That we’ve let our public infrastructure slide, that we’ve failed to invest in educating our people as to what’s actually happening in the world. That we are only where we’re at on the global scene because of the reputation we once had but now have squandered, so that the world will never again look at us as it once did.

We’ve pushed our every advantage as far as it will go, let everything slide as far as we possibly could, lived off of our former reputation to the point where we have irreparably tarnished it. There are no good times that can be further extended, nor are there good old days to which we can return.

In 2022, President Biden dipped deeper into the U.S. petroleum reserves than anyone ever has, selling off 180 million barrels. Our current reserves of oil are good for about 17 days at 2019 consumption levels. We’ve blown up the Nord Stream pipeline that provided Europe with natural gas, meaning that we have to provide massive amounts of our…