Looking at North Korea and Into Our Future

President Obama was visiting the DMZ in South Korea and looking through binoculars into North Korea. He said it was like looking 50 years into the past. I can't help but wonder if looking into the past in North Korea is the same thing we'd see if we looked into the future of the United States.

I know that might sound a bit dramatic but our government is becoming much more involved in our daily lives with each passing year. We lose more freedom and choice a little bit a time over and over again. The government is involved in our insurance, mortgages, jobs, vehicles, food choices, education, and the list goes on. It would probably be difficult to find something that the government is not involved. You might be asking yourself how that could put us into the past. I don't think it would put us into the past but I'm sure it's dragging us down and keeping us out of the future. 

The federal government spent $500 billion of our money on the solar firm Solyndra. That money is now gone. Had it been left up to the private sector to spend that money, it could have gone to further research and development into things that people actually need or want. I would love to have a solar set up on my house. Sounds great. But the technology isn't quite ready yet. When it is ready, the free market will know it and people will buy it. Until then, the government should quit spending our money on the pet projects of those in charge or we will find ourselves living in the past of the countries that have moved on with technologies at the right time.