Budgets in the U.S. are never cut, they are simply never funded with sufficient revenues. This is why we have monthly deficits totaling hundreds of billions of dollars, and the national debt is now approaching 11 trillion dollars. Add to this 37 million Americans living in poverty and 45 million having no health coverage and the problem becomes unmanageable. President Bush never vetoed a single spending bill while President, except for the last one which would have provided medical care for children.
Home foreclosures are completely out of control. In the state of Florida, there are so many vacant, abandoned homes left unchecked that criminals occupy them and set up marijuana growing factories. They change the plumbing to re-route the water supply, thereby destroying the home with mold and mildew. Then the bank, which now owns the home cannot resell it because it is uninhabitable.

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To an extent it’s the tragedy of the commons: the environment suffers from all of us collectively taking more than we need (roughly). Each individual not doing that does not get the benefit short term. Except for feeling good about themselves.

I don’t want to go into this too much today, because you have anticipated a post I’m publishing on Monday

Your question ties in with ‘the secret’ to an extent. In difficult times, when one feels one is doing what one can, there is a NEED to believe that everything will turn out fine. In a sense the message is to the universe: ‘what more can I do? Please take care of me…’ But there is unfortunately no guarantee that our past karma is such that we will deserve to be taken care of in the way we would like in this life.

Is ‘group karma’ the same as ‘ecology’?