Hedge Answers

We need get mad to avoid being SAD

May 07, 2012

TAGS: HEDGEAnswers, China, President Obama

Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to get mad. With the start of summer just around the corner and the spring flowers in bloom, we need to get mad in order to avoid SAD: self-assured destruction. 

Many of us remember the Cold War acronym MAD, for mutually assured destruction – the military doctrine that the use of weapons of mass destruction by each side assures the destruction of both, making victory meaningless. Well, now that the Cold War is dead and buried, we need to be thinking about SAD, the inability of the United States government to stave off another red threat from the east – China.

            As things stand now, we are headed on a course that will destroy this country. The Chinese have taken our manufacturing jobs, stolen our technology and continue to manipulate the global economy for their benefit.

            Washington needs to stand up to this threat and start playing offense instead of defense. It seems that both the Executive and Legislative branches are more interested in calling each other names than actually dealing with the problems that threaten the American way of life.

Something needs to be done and done now. In the next few weeks, President Obama and Governor Romney will begin duking it out over everything from gay marriage and abortion rights… Read More »