by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug  18, 2015

The Big Four Bridge from various angles in May 2013

Most systems (bridge, car engine, computer program) can withstand a certain amount of corruption; but all systems will fail at some point, when and if the corruption becomes too great.  For example, if Jeffersonville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky can’t decide who will paint the Big Four Bridge spanning the Ohio River, it will become corrupted by rust and fall into the river of its own weight.  Likewise, here in the U.S.A., if we don’t get control of the corruption that is running rampant in all three branches of the Federal Government, it too will fail.  We can argue on the details of the causes and the fixes, but the underlying problem is unconstrained lawlessness and corruption by our Federal officials. Until this is addressed head-on, the system upon which 321,512,481 American souls depend is destined to fail.

NOTE:

A system is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole
Some systems share common characteristics, including:

• A system has structure, it contains parts (or components) that are directly or indirectly related to each other;
• A system has behavior, it exhibits processes that fulfill its function or purpose;
  A system has interconnectivity: the parts and processes are connected by structural and/or behavioral relationships;
• A system’s structure and behavior may be decomposed via subsystems and sub-processes to elementary parts and process steps;
• A system has behavior that, in relativity to its surroundings, may be categorized as both fast and strong.