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Financial advisor Dave Ramsey put forth an interesting scenario recently on his nationally syndicated radio call-in program. Taking a hypothetical phone call from John Q. Public and his wife, We the People, in one brief illustration Ramsey demonstrated that no one in Washington, D.C., is really serious about cutting spending.
Ramsey has a way of boiling large numbers down to their essence and showing us the absurdity of our debt crisis. In his radio example, his callers — "John" and "We" — are earning $58,000 a year. However, they are spending $75,000 a year. More importantly, they have credit card debt totaling $327,000. In fact, $10,000 of the family's income goes just to pay interest on those credit cards.
"Now, what would you expect my advice to this couple to be?" Ramsey asked his radio audience. He then proceeded to say that if he followed the current model of "cuts" being proposed in Washington, his recommendation would be that they reduce their annual expenditures by a mere $3,000 — all the way down to $72,000.
Ramsey has calculated that these numbers are in exact proportion to the actions of our federal government in dealing with our deficit. However, instead of terms like "billions" and "trillions," to which no one can relate, Ramsey has reduced the numbers to one we can all comprehend. Anyone with a brain can figure out that a family making $58,000 and spending $75,000, with $327,000 in credit card debt, is headed for bankruptcy — or worse.
This, most people would agree, is the classic definition of insanity. And yet, many Americans go merrily along pretending that somehow the reason for our debt is the war in Iraq, or the war in Afghanistan, or tax breaks for the rich or whatever other cliché entrenched Washington politicians want to throw out during election years. The truth is that we could eliminate every federal program in Washington and we still could not pay for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security at the current levels — and still provide for the defense of the country. The truth is that this nation cannot pay its bills, and like John Q. Public and his wife, We the People, we are in for a rude awakening when those bills come due.
It has become obvious over the last two years that Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress have no intention of being serious about the realities of our federal spending. Letting them set our national priorities is — in the words of satirist P.J. O'Rourke — tantamount to giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
It is tempting to believe that John Boehner and his House Republicans are any more serious than the Democrats about making the tough decisions to keep this nation from falling into a financial pit from which we can never escape; but all one has to do is look at their proposals to know they are not the least bit serious. They are as addicted to spending as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who ran our spending levels up to the point where we are now spending $1.5 trillion more than we are taking in this year. Meanwhile, Boehner and company want us to cheer about $6 billion in cuts?
We cannot continue in serious times with unserious people representing us in Washington. They have taken the United States of America from the greatest, strongest, most prosperous country on the face of the earth and turned it into a debtor nation. They have taken us from a shining city on a hill to a banana republic.
As Dave Ramsey concluded in his lesson to his listening audience, it is the 9,000-pound elephant sitting on our foot in the living room.
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Doug Patton describes himself as a recovering political speechwriter who agrees with himself much more often than not. Now working as a freelance writer, his weekly columns of sage political analysis are published the world over by legions of discerning bloggers, courageous webmasters and open-minded newspaper editors. Astute supporters and inane detractors alike are encouraged to e-mail him with their pithy comments at dougpatton@cox.net.
March 21, 2011 @ 9:49 am
lets stop the NTSB from doing it’s own accident investigation at the same time the FAA is doing theirs. We don’t need this kind of redundancy. The NTSB should not investigating accidents. We have agencies that already do this. The NTSB should only be reviewing reports and compiling statistics from the various agencies. We don’t need this redundancy and never have needed it.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
March 22, 2011 @ 2:56 pm
Usually the first to comment on any given article, I’ve noticed, Wildman, and almost ALWAYS right on the money, like this time. Oh, and you too Doug! Great article!
And, as anyone serious about attacking the deficit and the national debt,(for those of you who don’t know, there IS a difference between the two) the first thing brought up are entitlements. I don’t disagree that entitlements can and should be streamlined, undefrauded, and I’m just fine with raising the retirement age to 67 or 69 in, when was it, in 60 years? People will be living much longer by then!
And onewildman, I certainly agree we don’t need 67 agencies that do the same thing! I saw the story the other day. The overlapping of what these agencies do is just ridiculous! Every government entity can be made to work better, such as maybe handing the USPS over to a private organization, or selling it if we must, but even ”giving” it to somebody capable would allow us to save how many billions per year? OK, sell it and make a buck and also get rid of billions of dollars in shortfalls every year. I’m sure a private company could make it work.
But there IS a way to fix Social Security and Medicare without cutting retiree’s and the disabled’s benefits. First thing would be to get rid of all those who are defrauding the system by not REALLY being disabled. Now, I am disabled so I’m not picking on anyone. But it’s come to my attention that a good portion of those on disability are on it because they are “mentally” challenged. In a lot of cases you would never know it by talking to them. But I’m not a doctor and if the doc says they’re disabled, well…..
If the retired people could just hear, from a politician or two, that their benefits wouldn’t be cut just because Social Security and Medicare are being “fixed,” they’d be less afraid and the politicians could get on with it! See, the retired and disabled think their benefits will be cut if they “fix” these two entitlements, and they need to be told otherwise.
But Doug, you made me LOL when you wrote: “or tax breaks for the rich or whatever other cliché entrenched Washington politicians want to throw out DURING ELECTION YEARS.”
What year is NOT an election year? Every year is an election year! Especially for the House, for obvious reasons. But we just had an election back in November (seems like yesterday, Tempest Fugit) and we are underway again as Pawlenty has officially thrown his hat into the ring. Some were complaining because it was taking so long! I thought it would be refreshing if this election campaign didn’t start till at least 13-14 months before the election! It just seems as though we can’t get one day past an election before talking about the next, and we’ve been talking about who could beat Obama in 2012 since the day he was elected, let alone inaugurated!(though he THOUGHT he was already the president with his news conferences with his presidential-like podium and his seal that read: “From the Office of The President Elect” ****! Remember that immature bull$#!%? I KNEW we were in trouble when I saw how immature he was…..doing that ****, as if he were already president. Or practicing, maybe? LOL
Sorry for the rambling, now back on subject:
But let them go ahead and do everything but entitlements first, as it can and will,(if they can get it through the Senate Democrats and have the Democrat president sign it into law) cut quite a bit before taking on the entitlements. But they will see that entitlements will have to be fixed, without cutting benefits, sooner or later. They’ll choose later.
March 21, 2011 @ 10:11 am
In all fairness, I think the 9,000 pound elephant in the room is your blatent disregard to provide a plan to reach fiscal solvency in resolving our national debt. To use Mr. Ramsey’s initial theory as a means to convey your own inferiorities are trite; which seems to be the whole platform of the GOP. Where is your spirit? Americans rise to any challenge such as our service men and women are doing day in and day out and have been for the past decade. To concede to military funding and deny federal funding for societal provisions is infantile ethically. By your own arrogance, you don’t mind paying for our men and women to die but, should they live and return home to enjoy their freedom and liberty to pursue a productive living with hospital, social, civic, rehabilitative, mental, and other vocational financial benefits provided by the federal government is short-sighted to say the least. Surely, Mr. Ramsey has a plan to solve the current trillion dollar deficit but rather than provide such you would rather you your own inferior diatribe to profligate separatism and division. All because our president wants to provide for those who should be provided for in a country where we spend more on our foolish desires than for substantive causes that pale in comparison to the expenditures given to our PRIVATE interests, avarice, and greed. Your argument is not sound. Impeach self-serving capitalists now!
March 21, 2011 @ 10:31 am
You sound like one of those anti death penalty people who are pro abortion, with that save a criminal kill baby attitude. Socialism has never worked and will not work at least in our lifetime.
Obama is not about providing he’s about buying people with promises that others pay for. The federal government has stolen 2.3 trillion dollars from Social Security and that number doesn’t count the money giving to people who immigrate to this country at retirement age. If they had not done this Social Security would not be in trouble.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
March 21, 2011 @ 10:36 am
I understand your sentiments but disagree with you about a fundamental word in your argument. You state “All because our president wants to provide for those who ‘should’ be provided for….” Where does it say in any document written by government at any level that says the government has the responsibility to provide money to the people. Social security is illegal, welfare is illegal, medicare is illegal, and medicaid is illegal because no where is the government given the power to provide this. Add to this the collection of an taxes to pay for them is illegal. These government giveaways were created before you were born so now you think everyone is entitled, no matter the cost. Now, most of the country is addicted to feeding off the government’s entitlements. This and military funding has put us in the mess we’re in. To defend either is to argue for our country’s economic collapse.
March 21, 2011 @ 10:50 am
You can’t put two and two together?
March 21, 2011 @ 11:02 am
Are you paying into the system, Mr. Darerick? If so, awesome, then you have a right to an opinion about how my money is spent. However, if you are not paying into the system, nothing you say is credible. It’s MY money, I worked for it. And I willingly pay my share of my hard-earned money to keep my country safe and prosperous. I understand my obligations as a free citizen of a free country. Do YOU?
Because you seem way more interested in YOUR share of MY money.
March 21, 2011 @ 11:14 am
This country is bankrupt because the government has intruded into the private affairs of it’s people. The Government is not supposed to be taking over corporations, insurance companies, medical care, schools, retirement and etc. These were all in the beginning, private enterprises and on local levels as well by the people themselves.
When the government steps in, they place mandates which they do not have the money to fund (ours). Then the local governments struggle to fulfil these mandates, which in turn puts a strain on the local economies. The Federal Government seems to think that the people cannot think for themselves. They treat us as children who needs to depend on the Government for all our needs. This is Socialism, which has never worked.
The Government should butt out the way and let the private sector do it’s thing! That’s how progress and inventions worked in the past! That is what America great. Intervention by the Government is why our economy has slowed to a crawl and bankruptcy outside the door!
March 21, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
Clearly there is not enough money to pay for what we are currently doing. Pretty simple concept. I guess you’d like to implement a 100% income tax. Well that’s akin to slavery. Not a good idea. I guess we can just raise taxes to 60 – 70 – 80%. That only kills more jobs and sends businesses overseas. Taxes collected is typically about 19% of GDP regardless of the tax rate. Maybe if we just keep printing money to pay for stuff. Honestly, what would you like to do? There is not enough money to pay for all these liberal programs. You can’t spend what you don’t have. Do you get that?
March 21, 2011 @ 4:08 pm
“darerick1814″ There is a great deal to comment on with respect to your reply to Doug Patton. I will forgo any comments on your writing style, (if you can call it that) or your socialist positions and try to give you some of the answers that you requested; i.e. a plan to reach fiscal solvency:
1) Cut spending by approximately 50% at all levels of government. Yes; cut spending, for example freeze Social Security and Medicare (cap the total dollar amount paid out), eliminate Medicade at the federal level, the States can do what they want, eliminate entire Departments (Education, Housing, EPA, Labor, et al) and let the States do what they want, reinstitute the Draft and eliminate contractors. I can go on and on and on …..
2) Straighten out our monetary policy. It is past time that the Federal Reserve Bank was eliminated and made part of the Treasury. The fed needs to see the light of day where all citizens can examine the books.
3) Reform our tax system! A flat tax of 10% with no deductions, exemptions or credits allowed! ALL forms of income are included, regardless of source, including benefits. Eliminate the tax free status of many, if not all, “companies” i.e. colleges, universities, etc. The tax code for business should be made simpler.
4) Change our trade policy. STOP all trade with China, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, et al, we are buying from our enemies. Repeal NAFTA and all other similar trade agreements, put the United States first.
5) Immigration! Stop it now! Jobs for Americans! The 20,000,000 illegal immigrants, and the burden that they place on the taxpayer, must go. As an economic “stimulus” I would propose a $ 250 bounty on each immigrant.
The above is just a brief overview of the things that must be done, and oh yes, one more:
6) As “onewildman” would say: IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!
March 21, 2011 @ 9:06 pm
You Liberal progressive wealth redistributors cannot understand that Government was designed to do only that for people, which people could not accomplish individually, things like Fighting wars, building roads, bridges, sewers. Basic survival 101 in life is finding your own food, shelter, and providing for your own health and your old age. If you cannot or in many cases will not choose to handle humanity 101 you need to flunk out and fade away like the Dinosaurs that you are, and let the laws of nature cull you out. They will in the end anyway, but you insist on taking down the rest of us with you. It’s not the government’s job to feed you, cloth you or wipe the drool off your mouth. The answer is to get the govenment out of the Mercy business for which it is so poorly designed, and back into the justice business for which is WAS designed. Since you crybaby Progressives took over with your insane wealth redistribution foolishness, the American people get neither Mercy nor Justice as you break our financial backs by rewarding the lazy and ignorant sectors of society. It’s time people take care of their own basic needs or suffer the consequences of their poor life choices. Starting Yesterday.
March 22, 2011 @ 7:15 am
@onewildman: “If they had not done this Social Security would not be in trouble.”
Because of the birthrate and basic demographics, SS would be in trouble anyway. When it was begun (1935), there were 16 workers for every beneficiary. Later the program was expanded to include spouses and children while they were in school. Now the worker-to-drawee ratio is less than 4:1 and people are living longer. It was always intended to be a pay-as-you-go system, and FICA taxes were never truly set aside. The so-called trust fund is simply IOUs from the treasury, but if those dollars were still there it wouldn’t matter. Unless the birthrate picks up dramatically and future retirees receive significantly lower benefits and people stop living so long, it will never be sustainable.
March 21, 2011 @ 10:18 am
You are right on target. No one in Washington has the guts to tackle the high ticket items in the budget that have already driven the US into bankruptcy. The Democrats have their darling expense items in the entitlements of Social Security and Medicare. The Republican have their darling expense in national defense. When one party controls Congress and the White House, there is still no initiative to reduce either. The last time there was anything seriously said about cutting entitlements was by Ronald Reagan, but he dropped the idea when he saw the popularity it would cost him.
Grousing about cutting funding for items that account for less than 5% of our budget is done just to deceive the public into believing something is being done. Congress loves to debate itself at the expense of the American people. What a disappointment the Tea Party has become. Now in Washington, they are indistinguishable from business-as-usual Republicans.
The international value of the US dollar is dropping like crazy. This and our growing out-of-control national debt foretells of another economic calamity in the near future. Be ready.
March 21, 2011 @ 10:24 am
darerick1814
Find a non-socialist school and learn about paragraphs – 2nd grade I believe. You offered no solutions because communists/socialists only excel at spending other people’s money.
March 21, 2011 @ 10:51 am
Doug Patton, the real economists without a political ax to grind say you are wrong. It is like the idea of drilling our way out of our oil deficit is not viable, nor possible. We can’t cut our way out of our deficit. Cutting wasteful spending is good, wherein cutting useful spending is not good.
The only way out of our deficit is to create a new and different, strong economy with the tax revenue we need to pay off our debt. You wouldn’t cut your income to pay off your debt, would you? The economy that got us into this mess was built with smoke and mirrors of toxic instruments and over used credit cards creating them. It is the national narcotic we will need to withdraw from, slowly.
But, once we have changed our bad habits, we will need new vibrant and very productive jobs to go to. The old job sources have learned they can make MORE MONEY, without you. Therefore, our country needs to spend, in order to create new jobs sources RIGHT HERE IN THE USA, to rebuild our economy and tax base.
HOWEVER, when you keep allowing your politicians to scare you into the opposite way, you will keep this their way going. It is like Einstein said, “Apply the same approach to a problem, while expecting a different outcome, IS INSANE.”
March 21, 2011 @ 11:12 am
Please define “useful spending.” I would be curious to know which spending you consider useful and which spending you consider wasteful. The federal government is not responsible for creating jobs, nor should they be. They do not produce anything or create income. All they do is transfer wealth. They should never use that function to pick the winners and losers.
March 21, 2011 @ 12:34 pm
To answer txgoatlady’s question: “wasteful spending” is usually defined as, “anything *I* am not in favor of”. Therein lies the problem – too many “I’s” on the spending committee, each with a different agenda…
As for “cutting our way out of a deficit” – it might help to remember that you can only pay down a debt with funds you have. As long as you don’t have as much as you are spending, it generally doesn’t matter what you spend it on – you are going in the wrong direction. Once you are spending less than you are making, then you have something you can apply toward the deficit.
Yes, of course there sometimes need to investments, “spending money to make money”. I have a (very) small business, so I know how that works. Even so, if my positive cash flow does not cover monthly expenses, my little business will eventually cease to exist. Therefore, any investments made when you are already down, must be sure of a quick and positive return (that is, even after things like taxes and interest have been deducted). Unfortunately, governments don’t have a very convincing track record with their investments, so it seems pretty risky to trust them to solve anything that way…
We can’t afford for our country to “cease to exist” – with all its problems, it is still the best country in the world!
March 21, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
So if we just spend say $10 trillion dollars a year we get a better economy? Lets make it $100 trillion, then we will be much better off. There’s a point at which priming the pump has diminishing returns. Additional spending will not improve the economy enough to offset the amount required to service the debt.
Wake up call…Raising taxes at some point ends up in less tax revenue, because it kills the economy. It kills initiative and incentive and sends jobs overseas. We need to cut wasteful spending and accelerate the economy. The private sector creates jobs not the public sector. The public sector needs to create the conditions that allow for the private sector to work best.
March 21, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
Interesting comment. Einstein’s quote is correct, especially applied to the Socialist, Progressive, Democrat, Communist and Liberal; they just keep on doing the same thing and expect different results. Or maybe they don’t, and their objective all along is to destroy liberty and constitutional government!
With respect to a “new economy” I must disagree, our trade policy has been misguided for decades! It is easy to see examples of where things went wrong:
1) Steel imports in the early 60′s,
2) Mexico free trade areas in the late 70′s,
3) NAFTA in the early 90′s, and
4) China and the WTO in the late 90′s!
A each juncture we, as a nation, lost millions of good jobs to foreigners. The first step to a new economy is to adjust our tariffs, cut spending at ALL levels and a common sense flat tax system. (There is much more to it, but you get the idea)
March 22, 2011 @ 9:55 am
Actually… The correct quote is:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
The rest of your muse is just as flawed.
When both Jack Kennedy and Ronald Regan made very large tax cuts, the economy took off, and all levels of the social strata did well.
Kennedy’s tax cuts funded Johnson’s “Great Society” programs (which sucked the economy back down).
During Regan, the Afro-American communities made more economic progress than ever before (or after).
You need to learn some real history before making a public fool out of yourself (which socialists are well known to do on a regular basis).
March 21, 2011 @ 10:57 am
There is a lot of talk about defunding programs that are not in the Constitution. I fully and wholeheartedly agree that if entitlement programs are not in the enumerated articled, we don’t need to fund them. However, there is also a lot of talk about defunding the military. To a degree, I will disagree. The Constitution does provide for military. However, if one wants to argue spending unnecessarily on the military (for example, $60,00 ashtrays), I will agree. Currently, the military has told Congress they neither want or need a particular airplane in development by several companies. To which Congress has ignored the military and funded this unnecessary expenditure anyway. Yes, I am aware that there is a lot of unnecessary spending going to the military (meanwhile, our guys and gals in uniform live off of slave wages). But I do not support comments that say defund the military for two reasons: 1. The Constitution most definitely does provide for a military and 2. those in uniform deserve that respect.
March 21, 2011 @ 11:15 am
I agree that the military likely has wasteful spending that needs to be cut. We need to do this without hurting our military readiness which includes not only equipment but also the military personnel. Now that Obama appears to have committed us to yet another war in the Middle East, he can’t really justify cutting the budget for the military.
March 21, 2011 @ 11:45 am
I beg to differ with your description of military pay as slave wages. First off I was in the military. They fed me well, better than I eat as a civilian. They put a roof over my head, paid for my water, electricity and gas. I had full medical and dental coverage. An E-1 currently makes this much a month $1476.60. Most of that is take home pay. I don’t come close to that after I pay for all the above except I have no dental insurance. I pay for any dental needs out of my pocket. I don’t think your were ever in the service.
Along with the above you make rank increases yearly unless you have been in trouble preventing such. With rank increase you get a pay increase and every year you get a raise on the anniversary date of service. The only who prevents you from increasing your pay is yourself.
I hear liberals talk about the military regularly and and almost always wrong in what they say. I did serve in the Air Force and not once was I ever broke while serving. I wish I could say that about civilian life.
My nephew is currently serving and about to deploy to Afghanistan. I also have several friends currently serving so I know a little about the subject.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! ! !
March 21, 2011 @ 12:09 pm
Isn’t the pay in the military the same regardless of where you are stationed? I know that the Border Patrol wages used to be done that way. If that is the case, the slave wages thing would be more likely if you were stationed in California than in New Mexico where the cost of living is less.
March 21, 2011 @ 12:23 pm
I was in the Navy onewildman. My son was in the Navy. I know MANY in the service. Maybe the term slave wages was a bit harsh but you can’t say military personnel are getting what they deserve either. I find it insulting those who have served, particularly retired personnel, are struggling just to make ends meet. I’ve heard the horror stories about VA hospitals, COLA being frozen (while Congress votes themselves raises), etc. Sorry, onewildman, but I do not think military personnel are getting nearly what they have earned.
March 21, 2011 @ 12:29 pm
Txgoatlady, I live in California and the cost of living doesn’t matter when you live on base. Your earnings are only needed for personal expense such as a car if you have one. It’s not really needed but some do have them. your money is primarily saved or spent on leisure. Most branches offer reenlistment bonuses. They do vary but mine when I got out in 1983 was $20,000 to reenlist for four years. If you live off base you receive money for food and housing on top of your wages and there is no tax on this and the amount is adjusted for state you are stationed in.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! !
March 21, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
loribme, As I said They are not slave wages. I have known between twenty and thirty people who retired after 20 years. They got jobs and drew their retirement from the service, they were in no way short of money even the ones who were married. What did see in the military were that E-1 through E-4 tended to spend their money, (pardon the expression) like drunken sailors. They blew their money on having a good time, buying high end electronics and muscle cars. I’m sure that has not changed much. I think you should look at the current pay rates: http://www.militaryfactory.com/military_pay_scale.asp When I was in I took home about $800.00 a month and that was plenty to play with and save. If you are not responsible with your money then you are responsible for not having any.
My nephew is the only member of my family currently serving and he is a Captain and has always been responsible with his money. he does make quit a bit more than enlisted members of the service.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
March 21, 2011 @ 9:12 pm
The problem is that our government is wasting tax dollars by spending our money on wealth consumption which eliminates jobs , instead of wealth production which creates jobs. You can complain about the military $60 ashtrays or $1000 aircraft toilets, but at least they put people to work and we got an ashtray and a toilet. The Democrats just spend money which gets consumed by people who are not working and all society gets in the end is that which goes into the toilet.
March 21, 2011 @ 11:12 am
The problem with our budget is that EVERYONE, from Top Politicians all the way down to John Q. Public, likes to think they can save a sinking ship by bailing water from their NEIGHBOR’S cabin, while relishing the swimming pool in their OWN!
March 21, 2011 @ 11:35 am
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
- Ayn Rand
March 21, 2011 @ 12:37 pm
The problem with socialist/marxist/nazi/democraps is that they think the rest of the people around them are as stupid, vapid and inane as they are. I have no idea how they think they can constantly get away with their “bait and switch” tactics in the face of conservatives all over screaming about their continued spending on trivialities. Makes me think that there is a whole set of Americans that are as dumb-assed as obama-lama-ding-dong.
March 22, 2011 @ 8:26 pm
He also put the Ramadhan in our Rama, Dama, Ding Dong.
When will he break out the prayer rugs.
March 21, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
Our problems are created by an increasingly corrupt government and even more corrupt politicians that are running it! It is not as simple as readjusting the budget.
The government is unable to use our money wisely and be fiscally conservative. When has it ever been successful running any kind of program! When the government gets involved in providing a service the cost SKYROCKETS! There are so many hands in the pie, kickbacks, power struggles, inflated bids on contracts, that we no longer can afford the corruption.
Everything the government does is NOT in the interest of Americans and America! It makes bad deals with our enemies that are harmful to our country, it sends our jobs to other countries, it burdens our businesses with ridicules costs and restrictions.. we all know what is happening. It is to the point that there is NO WAY to save the country by merely letting grandma eat dog-food!
We are being changed from a great productive, innovative, prosperous, independent people to a population of illiterate, homeless, hungry, poor, and broken people. How is that for “Change”..
The entire corrupt system must be undone… Our National Interests must come FIRST! “What is good for America” is not a thought that goes through the minds of those in Power. In fact, the opposite is more like the true story. Any responsible citizen, on most any street corner knows what this government is doing and why what they are doing does not make sense… (unless you are an American-hating foreign puppet, bent on destruction, aided by the most American-hating radicals he could find to appoint to the most prominent government positions)
Diversity and Political Correctness has ruined the COMMONSENSE and MORALITY long held by our country. People are forced to accept many outrageous activities that would never have been condoned a generation ago.. REAL MEN would have taken control of the problems and would have preserved a moral and just society. And, by the way, NO ONE would have a problem with the meaning of “moral and just.”
Our founders knew we must guard against the government, and the corruption that it could heap on its citizens. They put the proper provisions in the Constitution so that the People could protect themselves. But, our protection is being stripped from us as our freedoms are taken away. We are dealing with a group this country has never seen the likes of before. These radicals, both sides, ignore our country, our people, our Laws, our morality, our sensibilities. They focus on the total eradication of everything that has made our country great. There is a force leading them to their own destruction, taking our country and us with them….
True Americans will have to take a stand and reclaim their right to govern their own country.. Readjusting the budget will not be enough..
March 22, 2011 @ 10:11 am
WELL SAID AmericaFirst. I wonder if, when you folks achieve complete Republican dictatorship, with all of the lies and fear monger you are using to achieve that, what will you do, when you are the only ones left to apply that to?
God forbid, your party brought the entire world to its financial knees, what will you do after you bury all the dinosaur bones and run all the science teachers out of town? Where will you live, once all of the Global Warming guys are imprisoned and the EPA is disbanded, allowing pollution to freely flow.
Will that come before ya’ll cut off all help and subsidy to the poor, disabled and unemployed; wherein you may have to deport them to keep them from fighting back. Or, will you outlaw unions first and allow capitalism to run wild?
Without the unions around, they can easily cut wages to the new minimum wage you will set for them. And you know those companies will still charge the same as they did with the union wages. Those big companies have been on a long outsourcing dry spell since Bush left and I figure you will need to honor their payoffs quickly, by giving tax credits to promote it.
Somewhere in there you will have to decide between cutting public school funding and starting another war. That’s tough for a Repub to decide between. On one hand you make a lot of money off of wars and it does get rid of a lot of those disgusting lower class people, while stimulating the economy. By paying for public schools when you are having to pay for your kids to go to private ones, does need immediate consideration.
But, what tha hell, you will only have 3 or 4 token Dems in all of Congress, so you could kill schools and start a war real quick. You could also show your humble, caring side by letting those 3 or 4 Dems to just stay home with full pay, since they won’t have a say in going to the bathroom, without your permission.
Actually, it would be silly to keep such evil, stupid, corrupt, bleeding heart, inferior race sub-humans, if they are not white, around to begin with, wouldn’t it?
Wait a minute, I have a real good idea for ya’ll. Once you have your President and 99% of both houses in place with an overwhelming mandate to pillage and plunder, plus having replaced all of the old military generals and Supreme Court Judges, with your generals and judges, you could adjourn both houses, because you won’t need them anymore.
Your first vote in each house would pass a bill allowing them to vote from home, to accommodate that. That would go along with passing a bill increasing their terms to life and when they die, be able to appoint their replacement for life. Your President could start any war he wants to and your Congress could call in new bills to completely take over their voting districts.
Instead of your anti-clean air, anti-clean environment, pro-big insurance companies, pro-big banks, anti-immigration, big drug companies, airlines, credit card companies, and drill in Alaska, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Big Bend, Smoky Mountain, Gulf fishing banks, the beaches on Galveston Island, downtown Austin, TX , and everywhere else common people live, like to breathe and enjoy, lobbyist who once had to deal with Dems, could just stay home and send each of your Congress members a check for half the old cost.
You will have to establish private banks for special, government issued I. D. cards for Republican use only, after you repeal all of the regulations covering Wall Street and Banks. When those guys are set free again to pillage and plunder with all of the SS funds in their hands, your money won’t be safe either.
You might consider creating a huge, nation wide troop of riot police to handle all of the narrow minded people who have the nerve of being angry over having their money stolen. They are going to be edgy to begin with, after having to pay 50% credit card interest.
Small business owners will be real upset also. You will have taken away any possibility of lower cost healthcare insurance and bank interest will be eating all of their profits up. It would be safer to just outlaw small businesses to begin with. They tend to keep those inferior employee people alive and big business won’t like having to compete with them hiring their new, due to you, cheap labor away from them.
Your President and Congress could them outlaw all of the news sources and declare Fox News as the official state news agency, with Glenn Beck as the all knowing, God in charge of it. You could build a monument out front with O’Reilly, Hannity and ole Russ saluting Beck. He deserves the honor for lying you guys into dictatorship.
Eventually the middle class will be wiped out, along with the old folks who starve after being cut out of SS, the last of any threat to you, and without any subsidies, college cost will be too high to create any more of the middle class.
The only problem you are going to have, will come from the states trying to dump off their poor and old, on each other. Ya’ll may just have to build some concentration camps to handle that, if you can’t deport them all. OR, you could put them in big business, slave labor camps to earn their right to exist. That would end the need for out sourcing, win, win right?
I just would not refer to the Arian race thing. Being truthful could backfire on you.
March 22, 2011 @ 5:09 pm
Cless: I barely understand your sentences, let alone a point, except that you seem to HATE Republicans. I am a former Democrat,(AND i I say “former” because I had to change my party affiliation when, in about 2007 or so, they started to show their true colors. They are communists, socialists, or their word because they don’t like to come right out and say the word “Communist” or “Socialist,” would be that they are ”PROGRESSIVES!”)
I take it you like and respect Abe Lincoln? He was our first Republican president. And you, I would hope, hate the KKK as much as the rest of us, right? Almost all of them are/were Democrats. It is the Democrat Governors who stood in front of the schools after geing ordered by Federal Judges to allow black students to attend. Not one republican I can think of. George Wallace? Democrat.
But a lot of what you said was true:
“They tend to keep those inferior employee people alive,” and they do. Although I’m not sure who those “inferior people you are talking about are, to be frank.
It’s Obama that wants to let them die, but he’ll give them all the pain medication you needed till death finally happens (who knows, he may bring back a Jack Kevorkian type of fellow, he’s so compassionate, ya know) because with ObamaCare and the new version of health care rationing. (as opposed to the old kind going on now)
YES, there is rationing right now! It’s been going on since the inception of Medicare, but doing the best they can which is much better than telling people who have paid into the Medicare system their whole lives they(Medicare)won’t be able to pay for the procedure you need. Not want, NEED! The newly ObamaCare insured get to legally rob Medicare recipients (via the $500 billion taken from the Medicare trust, or IOU’s anyway) to form the new Medicaid program or whatever they are going to call it, that’s going to insure all the uninsured now, like, say, Rush Limbaugh, who CHOOSES not to be insured because he is rich enough to pay for ANYTHING he may need out of his pocket, and is more than willing to. But, by law, he’ll be forced to sign up for ObamaCare. (I think he’ll choose to pay the penalty, what do you think? LOL).
Call me stupid, and I fully expect you to as that’s what leftists do,(name call and such) but I find your rants hard to follow. I can’t comprehend a point anywhere in these rants. I find you bullying the republican party when it sounds to me you’re talking about Democrats, but at least you are intelligent enough to know how to use sarcasm. It’s not funny, but then, I doubt it is supposed to be, correct?
I mean, “Republican Dictatorship?” Republicans are for freedom, the Democrats are the ones for the “Nanny States,” you know, cradle to grave, dependent on the government for every need, want, and your “Union,” should you be part of the 15% of the working force that belongs to one, gets it for you while cutting the deal that eventually makes the republicans have to come in and try to fix it, or the state, or whole country, dies under bankruptcy? I say try as it may be too late already.
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March 21, 2011 @ 2:46 pm
And the majority of the American people don’t want to hear about it because they have become addicted to the drug called Government Money. I used to try to think of this Government Money as being the Japanese or Chinese people’s money, but I really do know that it is my children and grandchildren’s money.
March 21, 2011 @ 3:20 pm
We are currently just spinning our wheels on doing anything substantial about this fiscal problem that was created, by both parties over the years. None of our politicians in the past can sincerely say that they did not have a hand in creating this monster, and few of our current politicians have the guts to do the hard things needed to fix it.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the CZARs and their friends (like the unions) just have taken it to a new level. The American public is a mixed base now of liberals who are younger “do gooders” who really do not know what it is like to “do without”, millions of immigrants (many illegal) who came here to escape poor conditions in their homeland and are taking a low profile, millions of citizens out of work, increasing numbers of “baby boomers” who are living off of SS and retirement portfolios, and millions of more conservative Americans that are self made successes through hard work and a bit of luck. There are wealthy liberals who are hypocritical demonizers of our capitalistic system and would rather have a socialist America. There are wealthy Americans who gained their wealth taking advantage of other Americans who were not the smartest investors and did not know they could lose all of their money in the stock market, and, there are millions of Americans and illegals here that are expert at gaming the system to get handouts through the government programs that are run by some of the laziest and incompetent administrators out there.
We have allowed the unions to backdoor our government by gaining access to public service government workers and being allowed to organize them. This has created a major financial problem for every level of government and created an incestuous relationship between Democrats in government and these unions.
So the question on the table is how do you change the culture of our government and citizens back to one that is based on fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility for individual achievement and success, and a culture of teamwork and support toward preserving the fundamental values of the American way of life.
All I am seeing is lip talk with no real actions that show me any changes at the federal level of our government. And, that probably is not going to change into any form of positive action until Obama and his administration is replaced, and the Senate is back under a Republican majority.
But the real sad thing of it all is that there are too many Americans that are in denial of the problems we face and what has to be done to turn it around. These people just think that government money grows on trees or can be taken at higher levels from those that are working hard and paying their taxes, just to be given to others that supposedly cannot provide for themselves, like the 43 Million Americans on food stamps, and the 30 million that have no money for healthcare insurance (but have cell phones, flat screen TVs, and drive a car or two).
I appreciate real need, but, this country is not that poor that we have basically over 30% and growing of the income being spent by citizens somehow coming from the federal government programs (pensions, unemployment payments, welfare, food stamps, Social Security, etc). This is upside down and why the numbers just aren’t working.
So, cuts in government have to be made at all levels of government to start with and that is a hard thing to do because that means massive government worker layoffs. Will the first politician to raise their hand and do this please come forward?
Major reform is needed of all large government programs starting with SS management, Medicare, Medicaid, and we need to repeal Obamacare ASAP.
A topdown streamlining of the federal government is in order and has never been done in the past and is way overdue. We have so much redundancy and duplication within the federal government that it is rediculous. And takers on doing this?
This country is on the verge of having the dollar denounced as the world currency for doing international business. Once that happens, our problems are going to get much worse. We are going to see hyperinflation like never before. It is going to get nasty and everything we have saved for retirement or college, etc. is no longer going to come close to doing the job.
The only hope I see to turning this around is to elect new leaders in 2012 who are committed to taking on this challenge at all costs. Anything else is just putting off the inevitable.
March 22, 2011 @ 8:10 am
Great post, JDZ. Unfortunately, I agree with you completely.
There is so much that must be done in order to preserve our republic, and I just don’t see it happening. The politicians do not have the guts to tackle the big problems, and honestly, I am not sure they could get those things accomplished before being voted out of office by liberals and welfare recipients that don’t understand that we cannot continue down this same path.
Between ignorance and laziness, the voting populace either does not comprehend or care about the condition of our country enough to make the tough choices needed to turn things around. Many had rather just sit on the couch in front of the big screen drinking their beer, too distracted by the trivial to have more than a passing concern for the vital. How sad. God help us.
March 21, 2011 @ 3:48 pm
It’s not difficult to see what needs to be abolished, cut and restructured, in order to bring spending down to the level of incoming revenue, but there is no political will to do it. The primary function of elected officials, since the 16th Amendment and the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank gave them unlimited power to steal from the public, has been to buy themselves political power with public money. Nearly every dollar spent has some political reason behind it and a constituency that will be out for blood, if their goodies are cut off. Under present conditions, there will be nothing more than a little nibbling around the edges. Nothing substantial can be done without a highly committed and popular President (with large majorities in both houses of Congress), who can explain to the people how cuts are necessary to avert disaster and beneficial to everyone in the long run.
March 21, 2011 @ 5:21 pm
Here is the really scary part … Let’s say we do reduce debt by eliminating waste, duplication, double-redundancy, etc. And we eliminate 40,000 government jobs or maybe a lot more than that. Where exactly are these people going to find jobs? Our government and political leaders have allowed tax policies, minimum wage laws, unionization and many other impediments to the job-creating private sector to eliminate a large number of jobs in this country … manufacturing. We are now a “service industry” country. What does that mean? It means our best and brightest better be ready to wait tables, carry bags and chauffeur important people around town… THAT is the service industry sector you’re being told about. So, the truth be told, there are not enough jobs in this country to employ everyone needing a job. And yet we continue to allow illegal immigrants to take the jobs of out-of-work American citizens. Disgusting.
March 21, 2011 @ 9:17 pm
Want to get somebody’s attention? Republican Leadership, that seem to be ignoring the Will of the People, as well as the Democrats, need a rude awakening. We sent them back to Washington DC with specific marching orders and Boehner has demonstrated either his ineptness in adhering to that plan or his unwillingness to do so. I say we all should send a letter to the Republican Party. Tell them they can look forward to NOT ONE DIME of political contributions until they clean the earwax out of their ears and start listening and doing what we sent them there to do.
Things will not change if we don’t get tough! Close your wallets and purses! Maybe they will listen! This latest compromise almost surely puts Obama back in the White House in 2012. Was this calculated by Boehner? I’m beginning to wonder!
Had the Republicans held firm and told Democrats they were not going to allow the spending spree to continue…and if they didn’t like it …tough! Who would have been angry? Mostly, it would have been the social deviants and perverted, miscreants that believe government is there to do everything for them, and the Communist ******** that want to take over this nation. But, in typical fashion, the Republicans chickened out! And, we’re going to pay for it! Way to go, Boehner…you bonehead!
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