Kick the can. Sounds like a fun game. Something for the kids. Oh, contraire. “Kicking the can” has become a political tactic for putting off and hiding political problems until a later time.

This is to avoid answering hard questions, evading the reasoning and necessity for action, reducing time for analysis and study and exposing their ineptness and prejudice.

This makes it easier to bamboozle voting Americans. Am I right?

Has this tactic become a danger to this country’s survival? The urgency, deadlines and jamming things through, is a formula for making mistakes. Ostensibly on purpose.

We face excess debt, illegal immigration, energy restrictions, high unemployment, uncontrolled budget, etc. and they all seem to be on the “kick the can” menu. Is this how you handle your problems? Will society even let you?

Some of the more nasty results of “kick the can” are the Patriot Act of 2001, the Stimulus Act of 2008, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, to name a few.

I’ve got to believe we’ve all lived with time constraints in our jobs and lives. And I also believe most of us have experienced the difference between doing something in an organized, timely and responsible manner versus an erratic, last-minute rush. Errors, added stress, regret, added time and expense and correcting the mess are all the results of improper time management. So why does government (all levels) keep kicking the can to another time? Why don’t we see them for what they are?

George Orwell: “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Isn’t this exactly where America is in this election and don’t we need a revolution?

The game is over. We know it. What do you say? Let’s take the can away?