How can our country still Work?
I was taking a writing class at a prominent university and we were discussing political correctness. There was a bevy of words that could not be used today. Asian instead of Oriental, African American instead of Black. Seniors vs old people. It got me to thinking....we as a society are spending all of our time trying to be non-offensive to everyone and we look at that as one of our highest priorities. It dovetailed nicely with a movie I saw the other night called Idiocity. The premise of the movie was that poor stupid people procreate more than rich smart people. This , in the movie led to a general dilution in the general intelligence. This led to words losing their meaning and an general downward spiral.

Which was exactly the point about the class. Lets not offend instead of lets solve. How can we fix the health care in this country if we cannot talk about costs and benefits? This is all against the backdrop of a congress that is morally bereft than any I can remember. As lobbyists plow money into the system making spending bills so complicated no one understands them.

The first step is to understand that we need to be able to talk to each other before we can make the choices we need to make.