Walt Kelly described our current problems eloquently through the words of Pogo above.
Thinking of these words was my reaction to "How Apple Would Solve the Debt Crisis: If U.S. were run like business, it wouldn't cut spending" by David Weidner, MarketWatch, 2011-08-02.
He wrote that rather being like Apple and looking to the future, we Americans are like a shrinking company like Eastman Kodak. We won't borrow money for growth or raise prices to meet costs. We have defeated ourselves.
To think that we have a Department of Defense to protect ourselves against foreign enemies, real and imagined, but we don't have a Department of Imagination, or a Congress of Imagination, or a President of Imagination, or a People of Imagination to protect us from ourselves. We have let our own, false rhetoric mislead us into a defeatist attitude. And it is being orchestrated by big corporations more interested in short-term profits than long-term growth.
