From The Consortium News
By Brent Budowsky

The great issue in 2008 is the public sense that events are out of control, that we drift deeper into dangerous waters while our leaders lack the clarity or courage to act.

This is the security gap. It spreads across the landscape of American civic life. Our military has suffered a decade of damage through disastrous execution of an unwise war, without the trumpet that summons Americans to fully join the mission.

This security gap in our military is matched by insecurity about keeping our jobs, insecurity about protecting our health, insecurity about owning our homes, insecurity about paying for our food, insecurity about how we fuel our economy and insecurity about the dangers of climate change.

Our economy is dependent on Chinese money to fund our debt and Middle Eastern oil to run our cars. Our president treats America like a pitiful, helpless giant. Instead of leading the charge for a patriotic American energy future, he virtually begs Middle Eastern despots for oil, and they rebuff him, again.

Our assets are sold to foreign owners at basement prices. Our jobs are outsourced. Our prosperity is sold at a discount. Our security, our stability and our sovereignty are mortgaged while our national confidence is eroded.

While most Americans suffer the pain of rising insecurity, a few enjoy the Gilded Age luxuries of life. Speculation reminiscent of the Roaring ’20s runs rampant.

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