The Future is not a Game to Win

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Saturday January 29, 2011 · 10:07 AM PST

2011/01/29 · 10:07

As I watched the president's Weekly Address

I couldn't help but wonder, does President Obama think we are playing a game? The future is not about who will win the Super Bowl or the NCAA championship. The future should be about much more. Just look at the preamble to the US Constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

To list the items individually the future should be about

forming a more perfect union;

establishing justice;

insuring domestic tranquility;

providing for the common defense;

promoting the general welfare; and

securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

The future will come. There is no winning or losing. There is no game and I sure hope there will be no more wars. All of the above needs work, particularly promoting the general welfare. But they all need work. I can go into details, but I am troubled that to President Obama the future is about winning.

So some country wins the competition. What happens to the countries that lose. Well look at Egypt. Look at Tunisia. Look at Somalia. They all lost. Is this good for the "common defense?" Hell no. Wouldn't it be better if there was no competition and the "general welfare" was promoted?

Now let's look at winning. US corporations are winning. US financial services companies are winning. If winning means the middle class sinks into poverty, then is winning what we want. I think not. The country is not a private company and the President is not a CEO. Yeah, I know republicans see the country through such lenses, but must we democrats look through the same fractured lenses?

Get off the competition jag and let's get back to the constitution and get on with the program.

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