Plan for the future

We have a traffic mess, port congestion, deficiency of power and inefficient if not dangerous public transportation. Without adding crime and poverty, disasters and medical emergencies like MERS from the Middle East and Ebola from Africa, we are not in the best of times. The question is how did this confluence of events and perils come to pass and arrive at the same time? Obviously, the circumstances leading to them come from a long way away, from decades of not planning, not preparing, not thinking.

I would say basically, the principal cause is not thinking. Thinking means envisioning, planning, analyzing and putting facts together to arrive at conclusions which should be acted on. Which government ignored the demographic trends of high population trends which would require more schools, more roads, more hospitals, more basic services? We have come a long way away and I would say every government since post World War II ignored what the future could bring from the trends of the present. Who planned ahead and came up prepared for the future? If someone did, nothing happened to show.