We must be nuts!

I think we Americans compartmentalize too much. In acting out of our own interests in one compartment, we ignore the damage we cause in another as a result. Both Democrats and Republicans propose solutions with little thought to the consequences of the action. Examples of this are nationalized health care, the economic bailout, and getting out of Iraq before we're done, or maybe getting into Iraq in the first place.

James Boswell wrote from Great Britain in 1779 in Taxation No Tyranny the following; "We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties: an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"

We wanted to be free, but what are the consequences of that? While freeing the slaves was a positive consequence, the civil war was harder to swallow. What are we going to do next? I certainly don't want to give up any of my freedoms.