By Frosty Wooldridge

"We must prevent human tragedy rather than run around trying to save ourselves after an event has already occurred. Unfortunately, history clearly shows that we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet the situation, by failing to act when we should have acted. The opportunity passes us by and the next disaster is always more difficult and compounded than the last one." Eleanor Roosevelt

You may or may not like FDR's wife, however, her words provoke a call to plan for the future. In other words, you will arrive at your destination when you carry a roadmap.

As we spiralout of the year 2007, does anyone in America know which direction our leaders point this country? Does our Congress facilitate a strategic plan that benefits citizens of the United States 10 or20 years from now? Does our president present a crystalline, positive direction toward a definable destination?

Who addresses a National Energy Policy? National Water Policy? Rational Immigration Policy? National Resource Use Policy? NationalAirPollution Policy?Carrying Capacity Policy? National Food andFarm Policy? National Size of Cities Policy?

Or, do wekeep growing until we exceed our ability to feed and water ourselves? Do we keep using water until we confront Lake Lanier, Georgia's crisis? Do any of our leaders address as well as offer solutions to our most pressing problems?

Or, do they react to catastrophes after they have already occurred? For example, after the 1986 amnesty, did our presidents enforce our borders with laws in place as Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully acted in 1954? Did our leaders create a preventive immigration visa policy that stopped Middle Eastern immigrants from terrorist countries from enjoying full access to 747 Jumbo jet flight schools in our country? As 9/11 proved: no!

Did anyone in the PeachState think proactively about impending water dilemmas at Lake Lanier, Georgia. Did they enact a logical plan for people and carrying capacity today and 20 years into the future? Short answer: no!

Does anyone understand our dilemma with continued unrelenting immigration from millions out of the third world? Author Pat Buchanan's "DAY OF RECKONING" states, "America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide. The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to our survival as one nation than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq."

On the opposite side of the aisle, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm said, "We are the only country in history that ever deliberately changed its ethnic makeup, and history has few examples of 'diversity' creating a stable society."

Clearly, we speed into the 21 st century without a roadmap. If we continue, we may drive over a cliff, or out of gas on a lonely desert road, or end up at a destination that will do us great harm.

The American public sits "numb" to the invasion of 20 million illegal aliens. This president and Congress refuse their sworn duty to secure America's borders and revoke anchor baby instant citizenships.

This president attempts to change U.S. "sovereignty" to a globalist one world order-a socialist state with open borders. A total of 54 Mexican consulates aid illegal aliens in major cities. At least 31 sanctuary cities throughout America provide safety for illegal aliens while the Congress attempts amnesty and a fast track to citizenship for illegals. Governors, state legislators,city mayors, city councils and many police agencies refuse to enforce our immigration laws. Is that policy working? Ask 80 percent of Americans who scream daily for stopping it!

Yet, millions of illegals arrive un-checked--bankrupting schools, hospitals, emergency rooms, welfare programs and entitlements paid for by American citizens.

This country allows another country's language to take over in front of its eyes. Seymour Lipset, the renowned historian, said, "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Current day France stands as a formidable precursor for America."

With continued lack of participation, America's best days fade in her rearview mirrors. With 460,000 military personnel in 120 countries, America resembles an empire. Every empire in history decayed from within. In the early 21 st century, America hobbles off the world stage--overrun by the hordes at the gates, indolent world conquests and bankrupted economically with power that no longer enjoys relevance.

It's been said that, "Dying empires cling until the very end to the outward trappings of power. They mask their weakness behind a costly and technologically advanced military. The creeds and noble ideals of the nation become empty clichés used to justify acts of greater plunder, corruption and violence."

Bush's war proves such plunder. The "War on Drugs" manifests unending meaninglessness. This nation's debt spirals into the dungeons of despair.

The most damning signs of this degrading republic manifest faster if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes president. We will see the presidency controlled by two families in the last 24 years. In that time, the middle class vanished while the top one percent amassed more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. That renders signs of an oligarchy in power.

Common citizens stagger daily under massive debt while funding hundreds of military bases worldwide while one president declares wars on nations 10,000 miles away. In the meantime, democratic freedoms diminish (Patriot Act) in the name of national security.

Job wise, congressional leaders outsourced, insourced and offshored three million American jobs in the past 10 years. Detroit lost 60,000 manufacturing jobs in the past 24 months.

"There has been a glaring and unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders," said retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former commander of forces in Iraq to the New York Times.

The United States dropped from the world's largest creditor to its largest debtor. The U.S. military-industrial complex spends as much money annually as the rest of the military power in the world combined. All the while, Social Security and Medicaid services sink into financial chaos.

Last Tuesday, President Bush vetoed a domestic spending bill for education, job training and health programs, but signed another bill giving the Pentagon $471 billion for the fiscal year that began October 1st.

What do our young men die for? Short answer: Halliburton, Big Oil, Blackwater and other corporate elites that feed off the Iraq War like jackals on a carcass.

Our government resembles a Hobbesian ethic of individual gain at the expense of American citizens. No one wants to die for a Halliburton or Exxon, but Bush enjoys his own volunteer private army. Thus, 99 percent of Americans remain unaffected by American kids dying in Iraq.

We allow our president and Congress an endless cycle of war and conflict that drains away the morality, ethics and dreams of our founding fathers.

Rather than speeding into the 21 st century--out of oil, with wrecked environment, scarce water and depleted resources-we need enlightened citizens intending, then creating new workable paradigms. We need reasoned nationalism and fair benefits for OUR citizens. We invite 'conscious capitalism' that benefits us, our environment and other countries in our world. We must move toward a stable, sustainable and viable future with a roadmap and plan.

Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.numbersusa.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.capsweb.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.immigrationcounters.com

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents - from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website www.frostywooldridge.com

Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesdays and Thursdays as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots" at www.republicbroadcasting.org at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.