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Unfortunately for Cruz the country is not ready for him. He reminds me of the tragic heroes in Chinese history. There are untold stories during various Imperial Dynasties where long term thinking minister would advise the emperor not to embark on certain actions. Instead of being thanked the minister ends up in prison for going against the general consensus of all the ministers in the imperial court and insulting the emperor. The hero ends up dying in prison but decades after his death everything he predicted came true. Only then the minister is no longer a villain, but a hero in history.
Cruz may be such a person. The shutdown is not popular. Just look at the polls. GOP gets blame. Even after the GOP wins in 2014 and 2016, a sizable portion of the GOP reps and Senators will win by slim margins. Are they ready to cut the budget and balance the budget. Gingrich tried that in 1995 and he had a handful of GOP reps who could not vote for many of his bills. The MSM was relentless and the low information voters added to the ignorance.
Shutdown is not popular, but to the average American they do not realize that Sen Cruz raises a valid point on US national fiscal health and its implication if no action is taken to rein in spending. The point of my post is has the nation reached a tipping point on our debt. Has the nation run out of time? IMHO I think it has, and I for one have been prepping since 2009. I think all freepers and conservatives need to network and prep. When the SHTF, US banks will implode, US gov will initiate bail in (customer accounts will be frozen, daily withdraws are limited, and anything larger the FDIC amount will be seized to cover bank debts). If you have stockpile food, essentials, and own hard assets, plus guns and bullets for defense, you may escape the violence of panic buying of food and water at supermarkets, have money when banks close, and protect your wealth in terms of reset currency if you own some prec metals. Many nations recently had sovereign debt collapse, and none end up like Mad Max, some form of gov still existed and martial law were implemented. The hardest part was the first six months dealing with shortages caused by banking disruption.