America's sense of entitlement needs to come to a close for our own sake

This isn't meant to provoke fear reactions, American's have always thrived on competition, and it isn't David vs. Goliath... yet. Think of it as a grand opportunity that you want to capitalize on as soon as possible.


I feel that American's have been living with a passive sense of entitlement for far too long, coasting on the work of our forefathers. That being American intrinsically makes you better. Our declaration of independence tells us the truth, "all men are created equal". We need to work hard and prepare hard if we want to continue to flourish. Not outspend our earning potential and have negative savings.

We are 300 million people and expect to be tops in everything that we care about. The stark reality is the word has 6,500,000,000 people in it and we're not the majority of the population. We're not going to have the best of everything forever. The world's standard of living is going to rise and ours isn't necessarily going to be tops. In fact the best thing we can do is make sure our country's political system stays as free as possible.

I feel one of the main reasons we've been able to stay at the top in so many ways is the smartest and brightest of every other country has wanted to come to the US. I think we're going to see a shift away from that trend and those same people will want to stay in their home countries. And we're only going to perpetuate that trend by closing our borders in a blind fear of terrorism. Pretty soon the rest of the world will go "uhh okay, like it matters what you do anymore America, do whatever, so long as India and China are going full steam we don't care".

Our country is focused on our national security and monitoring it's own populate while the rest of the world is quickly accelerating beyond us.

Go green and risk turning green

I found this article personally relevant as I had taken to reusing my water bottles to help conserve plastics. Now I'm thinking of picking up the non-estrogen releasing Nalgen water bottle.

Hack the planet!

So all those swipe cards you use to get into buildings... well one of the major ones in use has just had a security vulnerability released. There are something like 1-2 BILLION of them in the field so it's a big deal. Some government have posted guards in response to security concerns.

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