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If ignorance is bliss, then we must have a lot of happy people in the U.S.  

I've only been around for 20 years, not long by any standards, but what my generation lacks in time, we make up for in timing. We were born at exactly the right... or perhaps wrong time. The situation we find ourselves in, with Americas economy in free-fall, unprecedented violations of our constitutional rights, and warmongering on a biblical scale is absolutely unique in American history. While corruption has made itself a theme throughout American history, never before has greed ran as rampant as we've seen in recent years, and the jumps in technology are presenting new avenues for large corporations and the Fed to influence citizens in their day-to-day lives. Look on the right side of your screen. There are Ad's there, specifically for you. Google search and Facebook can gauge your interests, and make a special Ad setup, just for you. Sounds a lot like the Minority Report, right? So with all this technology and so many new products and services available on the market, why isn't the market functioning correctly? Big Business glibly concludes that regulations are suffocating innovation and economic movement, and the funny thing is that they've managed to convince many middle class workers that are suffering because of a lack of regulation that this is the case. Sorry to all Reagan-Lovers, but while the massive de-regulation of the market under Reagan boosted the economy in the short term (In the sense of the stock market, realistically the supply side economic structure had significant short term harms as well) it's not even debatable that these policies paved the way for the current economic crisis. As regulations waned, the economy became less and less stable. It was an unsustainable trend, and eventually it had to blow up.  If no one has noticed, our country is over 14 trillion dollars in debt (Which, is not counting our trade deficit, which amounts to another 48 trillion dollars.) and household debt is now over 100% of the GDP. What are we doing about it? Are we encouraging businesses to open manufacturing plants within the US borders, to raise GDP and fight unemployment? Are we cutting ridiculous war spending, which has been instrumental in increasing the debt? Are we even learning from our mistakes on an individual level, and halting the move towards living on borrowed money? The answer is a resounding no. Our country continues to outsource manufacturing jobs. We continue a war that NEVER should have started. Wages have only gone up 1% on average in the past 30 years, while the cost of living has ricocheted into the stratosphere, forcing even middle class families into foreclosure. This is all preventable, but nobody seems to want to step up. We're inheriting this mess, there's no way around it. We just need to make damn sure that we don't pass it down again, to our children. America's youth need to stop sitting around, playing on twitter and watching Jersey Shore, and do something. If not us than who? We have the chance to push America forward, to make progress. Those who yell the loudest tend to be heard the most, it's the sad truth. So let's make our voices louder than those who got us into this mess. Let's take this country back.

We cannot allow ignorance to be bliss anymore, because we're blissfully sitting around on a quickly sinking ship.