Posted on 09/04/2010 11:21:11 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
The latest news on the debt that the US owes triggered the above title. Will all generations currently alive in this nation, including newborns, be saddled with debt past their death? On hearing the news, the thought occurred that the US government is going to keep running up debt until this leads to the death of the country – not death in a literal sense – but “death” of the “shining city on a hill,” into to a third world dump, where dumpster diving becomes the norm.
This national debt situation is becoming like a bad marriage, and making “we the people” feel like breaking those marriage vows “till death do us part.” The politicians have turned that “contract” into “until debt do us part.” An overgrown monstrosity is the description used to describe the US government. King Kong, probably the most famous “overgrown monstrosity,” at least loved the blond, and was willing to kill for her. Our overgrown monstrosity does not love the average American citizen. In true vampire style, it wants to suck the lifeblood out of us all.
The politicians, the puppet masters of our overgrown monstrosity, must sit around plotting, “how can I tax thee? Let me count the ways.” I plead with them, “no need to count the ways...you already have us from cradle and beyond the grave.” Whenever I read yet another story of the family of a small farmer, having to sell the family farm to pay taxes on the farm that Farmer John worked himself to the bone to leave for his family, my heart breaks all over again. Why? How could his own government do this to a citizen?
I thought that I wanted to file for divorce before? This headline TARP Billions Shipped Overseas, almost sent me looking for a good divorce lawyer! Truthfully though, how does one “divorce” one’s country, unless one gives up one’s citizenship? I am not giving up my citizenship and make it easy for the scoundrels who are trying to destroy this country! It would be so easy to run for the exits, as some fellow citizens are doing, and escape the financial raping of the American taxpayer. Really, practicality would dictate that one should put an end to being one of the most abused species in the western world. In what other western country do taxpayers pay to support about half of the country, about 20 million interlopers, and a bunch of leeches, going by the misnomer “leaders”?
Placed in perspective, party time at the People's House , is minuscule in comparison to the national debt, but it is still troubling to know that these sums are being spent while too many of the subjects of the nation, are going without. I will not even discuss the vacation in Spain of my fair lady. These, according to this article, are the latest figures on the national debt and spending. You newborns, you have been betrayed. Under normal circumstances, we who preceded you into this world, usually try to leave a better country for you to inherit. Nothing is “normal” anymore. We are going to leave a legacy of debt. You may end up in debtors’ prison, figuratively speaking, if China and those other creditors, decide to call in the national debt. The word “sorry” is woefully inadequate.
Speaking of the national debt, when I saw this headline, “U.S. debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015,” I almost joined that dead farmer who left his family farm for his survivors. Currently the budget deficit is around $165 billion? Does America still belong to those people known as “Americans”? Debt or deficit – that is not stopping the drunken government from committing to this pledge. Mama mia! I was just calling on Mama, I should be calling for Daddy also! The drunken government is now in the mosque building business! I guess some places of worship are “more equal than others.” Why is the US government not in the business of building synagogues or churches?
President Obama has been going around making speeches about cars, ditches and “drive.” Respectfully, Mr. President, when you are about to go over a cliff, as this economy is, “drive” is not going do it, unless you are intent on committing suicide. I somehow do not get the impression that too many of my fellow citizens, want to commit financial or other suicide. I think that “R” for reverse, as in reversing some of the idiotic economic policies, could be a better driving maneuver. No wonder two of those economic advisors already bailed out of that economic hybrid car. While we are at it, someone may want to inform the vice president that his “recovery summer” has turned into a “discovery summer” – discovery that the financial cliff is nigh. There will be no recovery until young, in between, and not so young, who are seeking jobs, can find them. Remember: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Start with this article.
I have a suggestion for helping to dig the US out of the China hole it has dug for itself. All those leaders who are telling the rest of us to “sacrifice,” should take their advice. How about if they voluntarily give back about 25% of their base salary? Plus, give up 50% of the perks and 100% of the pork, also known as earmarks – and any other extras that we the serfs do not even know about. These lawmakers could probably comply, without even noticing that they have given up anything. That could put at least five mil back in the Treasury, I am guessing. I could be wrong. It could be more. That will be one small step for mankind. Well, maybe not all of mankind, but at least for the economy of the US. Members of the ruling class, prove this writer wrong. Assure me that this observation is way off base.
If you do not voluntarily give up the pork, then we may be forced to adopt, what I am calling the “Bell Model.” This is nothing like the Bell Curve. The Bell Model has to do with what the citizens of Bell, California, accomplished on the road to righting the financials ills of their city. It turns out that Bell had been “artfully” shaped into a city of two classes, the haves, and the have nots. The Ruling Class had voted itself salaries as high as $800,000, plus, plus, while the average salary for the peons is around $24,000. What a difference a few zeros make! When the peons found out, they stormed City Hall, and extracted change that they could believe in. The high salaried ones began toppling like dominoes, or like rats abandoning a sinking ship. They resigned and are now in line to collect their high dollar pensions, which peons in some others cities are largely responsible for paying, as part of a pool arrangement. There are now investigations going on.
Later, it was also found out that the homeowners of Bell had been overcharged for years for their property taxes. I am no longer going to demean foxes by using the description “fox in the henhouse,” just as I no longer use “spending money like a drunken sailor.” The substitution is now “politician(s) in the henhouse,” and “spending money like a drunken government!”
Alas, my fellow laborers, that voluntarily put back by the ruling class, is not going to happen. So, enjoy your Labor Day. But come Tuesday, September 7, 2010, get back out there. You have a country to support. As a matter of fact, you have many countries to support, plus a ruling class.
“He ain't heavy, he’s my brother”? The 2010 version is: “He is damn heavy, and he ain’t my brother!”
In 55 BC, Cicero advised Rome:
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
Rome did not listen. Hopefully, we will. Let us prove that we did not give up one King George III for 500 plus kings and queens, give or take about a hundred or so honest ones, who do not bother to disguise their disdain for the serfs. In case you need some visual incentive, this ought to help. September, as has been the case with most of this year, is going to be a write off. But there is hope for change, millions of us can believe in. “Surf’s, Serfs up” – enjoy your November!
preach it bro.
as the french revolution proved, a restless people won’t stand very long for a government which lives high on the hog for itself but tells its people to “eat cake” (”cake” meant a crude coarse bread, not the celebration pastry we know today).
when such a government has been swept out, we will have cause to eat cake, in the modern sense.
Our government, elected leaders, has a disdain for us ‘mere’ citizens.
I remember reading in my history classes and I believe it was Thomas Sowell who restated it within the last few weeks that ...
“when the Normans conquered the Brits they wrote their laws in French, cause their subjects couldn’t understand it.’ (or words to that effect)
Seems we are reliving that now with massive bills that no one has read and so we must be told that “we need to pass it to know what’s in it.”
History repeats itself, yes?
This is worse — the Normans understood what they were laying on the British, while most Rats couldn’t even fathom the gobbledygook.
Oh, our Congress critters know exactly what they are doing. Lying to us and passing laws preparing us to be indentured servants for many many many generations.
The little Rat cabal who actually were up close and personal with the abomination has asked the rest of the Rats to trust them. This is a potential house of cards for the Rats.
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