I urge you to read this insightful and sad article in its entirety. Bill Sardi relates what a troubled nation we now call home in the USA:
Life is suddenly changing in America.
It’s 8:30 AM. I’m getting my 5-year-old son in the car to take him to preschool. I have to drive him down backstreets to school because the police are handing out traffic citations on the main drag, in the wake of downturns in public tax receipts. My son asks why? I tell him the truth. We are avoiding the police on their motorcycles.
I even find that if you live in California you can get a traffic citation and you don’t even need to pull your car out of the garage. Violation VC 14600(A) mandates payment of $214 for failure to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of address change within 10 days. It’s us versus the public employees now, their job or mine. My son enjoys the drama of trying to avoid the cops and says he will be on the lookout for me.
No more P.S. #24
I drop my son off at preschool, a church-run school. He won’t be attending public school like his parents did because we want him to learn values, not to believe he accidentally evolved from an ape-like creature, and we don’t want him exposed to all the propaganda injected into school curriculums about global warming, overpopulation, gay agendas, mandated vaccinations, the idea that the earth is to be valued above human life, or blind loyalty to government above God. Some of this thinking creeps into church schools too, so we are vigilant.
I’m back on the road, carefully driving under the speed limit. I feel like a driver on marijuana who is driving ever so carefully to avoid being stopped by the police. There are a growing number of intersections now snapping photos of me driving by. It’s all an effort to boost public revenues, not increase public safety.
The ghost office
I pull into the post office parking lot to purchase some stamps. As I enter, the post office is a ghost of its former self. For the past six years that I have used this post office there have always been long lines of customers waiting to be served by no less than three clerks. Today there is no one in line, and only one clerk serving a sole customer at the counter.
The last few times I have visited this post office, and another nearby branch, it has left me wondering where all the customers have gone. I read where the US Post Office is a few billion dollars in the red and is scaled down into a junk mail delivery service. Electronic mail has made a profound change in the way Americans communicate. You wonder, will the post office cease to exist at some time in the near future?
The hard-bare store
Now I’m headed to a chain hardware store, to pick up some salt tablets for the home water softening system. As I enter the store I think there must be a fire drill underway and everybody must be out in the back parking lot. It’s another empty store. Inventories on store shelves have been pared. With a search down every store aisle, I find three other customers and no one waiting in line at the cashier’s stand. The clerk hands me a $10 discount coupon if I come back this Saturday.
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