What the real threat to America is, according to Carter, and is that threat still with us today?
"True problems of our Nation are much deeper—deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages" He says that the problem is deeper then gas or energy. We are suffering from "moral and a spiritual crisis". We are consuming more then we produce. "Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife." Hes saying that we are over importing and we are so dependent on other country's that at any point they can cut us off and we would be done. We America would be suffering and lost with out the oil. The problem is " a fundamental threat to American democracy....... We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation. " That is the threat, Americans losing there say in Government. I think that the threat is still here today and there always will be the threat of us loosing our say in the goverment. "But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past."
Summarizing what Carter is saying about American society, and analyzing America today against his critique.
Carter is saying that America has changed. America has changed from loving God to loving themselves. America had gone from being hard workers to lazy people who aren't very good workers and that just don't car. We now find joy in items and material goods instead of what we did for others. "For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next 5 years will be worse than the past 5 years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote." More and more people are disrecspecting churches, the goverment, schools, and anything and everything. People just dont care about anyhting such as our future anymore. "This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning"
How do the plans differ, and how are they alike? How do their plans reveal what they think the problem really is?
Obamas plan is to cut industries that are clean powered "We will lead again, by developing an American clean energy industry"(Obama's web site).Carter doesn't day anything about that topic. Carter talks about saving gas by car pooling, Obama just wants to use fuel efficient cars. Both plans want to import less and relay on our country resources not other country. "From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. "(Carter) Obama said " We can remain one of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy." There plans also reveal that they can only do as much as congress lets them. So if the congress is like no no no you cant do that the president just has to try it a different way.
