Our forefather’s feared when they were creating this democracy was the shear size America would be. As politicians and investors acquired more and more land from Spain the concern grew that the massive land would jeopardize the ability to govern the states correctly and efficiently. Today America is too large to govern properly just as our forefathers feared from the start. Over budgeting and spending have caused problems and an overbearing burden on the economy. As we have seen and experience in our recent economic recession and from the lack of support needed by the national government. To support and pass legislatures that would help ease the burden of states trying to brace its people. Another issue with the size of the country is the population growing and living longer and longer. Social security dwindling away and baby boomers growing older and needing medical support such as Medicare is placing more enfaces on the size of our country that we inherited. We are having a hard time benefiting from a democracy that is under pressure to support its people. Thomas Paine said, “ Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it”. He was right foreseeing the country in this state of turmoil. Paine never imagined a nation that would have a mass amount of land and citizens in need of national support such as medicaid and foodstamps to survive. Our country cannot keep up with burdens facing the country and I fear we will never recuperate from its size to be effective and efficient to the people.
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Ms. Vasquez in your blog post America is to large and cumbersome to be effective! your argument that the country is too big for the democracy to be successful is not one I can accept. I see what your saying as fare as social programs are concerned but please remember that social security was borrowed from many times to fund tax cuts given by President Bush otherwise social security would still have decades before it needed to be looked into as a possible problem. The country being big is from my perspective a very good thing as long as it is productive, remember the saying "many hands make light work"? That is what I see for our country, a society where everyone that is able bodied is doing his share and the ones that can't are taken care of very well. What we need is a more successful society not a smaller one. We need well educated Americans that have good jobs that can pay taxes, the more people the more tax revenue. With a society that is large we should be more successful as a country.
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