Shazaam, Super committee to cut and tax fails ... what a surprise!
Some straight talk from deep East Texas bout what's fixin' to happen... by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Yep, most folks would wonder how I could be taken seriously as a political commentator and thinker if I admit I don’t even know the names of the 12 people, six from the House and six from the Senate who formed a Super Committee and were supposed to develop a compromise plan to cut government spending and raise taxes? Well, I don't know 'em because I expected nothing from them! And that's what we got.
Folks the spending issues we face are huge, and the answer will be tough. Now we can do nothing and forces of reality will take care of providing the answers, depression; bankruptcy, and layoffs. Because we are such a large part of the world economy, our failure will lead to global chaos, financial breakdown and most probably war.
And before you get all mad at the people in Washington, they ain't doin' nothing cause you ain't either! Are you willing to pay teachers and police less? Are you willing to close colleges and universities? Are you willing to pull the US troops out of the mid-east and Europe, and most of the rest of the world? Are you willing to cut subsidies to Israel, and all the other nations of the world? Are you willing to change social security to an individual private saving accounts where the monies are invested in the market and the American private sector, not the government?
Are you willing to admit that paying Social Security Disability for drug addiction is foolish? Are you willing to close down National Public Radio? Are you willing to cut the excess? I doubt it.
We got 20 million illegals, and we are paying their social costs, education, health, welfare, criminal justice. There's 9 percent unemployment in part because illegals do the jobs at the bottom, instead of Americans. Reports indicate as many as 40 million working age Americans are NOT working.
Now I know you are busy, and you are thinking; “hell, we pay those folks to go to Washington to handle this kind of stuff.” But, that's only partially true. You see, you may have forgot, or more likely you may not like the idea, but you are a citizen, and this nation was formed to obey the rule of the majority. Now we have kind of gotten away from that concept. We got a Supreme Court that thinks its suppose to rule. We got a President who believes the Constitution is about "negative rights." About half the adults in America don't vote. It's really not much of wonder how bad a condition the United States is in.
And you know, that pesky God, that many want to deny or ignore, well isn't it amazing that the issues crushing America are the very same issues which caused the South to secede 150 years ago! And isn't interesting we are celebrating the American Civil War Sesquicentennial now (2011 - 2015).
Folks our problems exist because of you and me, not because of the people in Washington! Oh, they are a part of the problem, but we look to them to be magicians, to somehow find a solution to solve a 17 trillion dollar debt problems without affecting us! And that just can't happen. Impossible.
Capitalism is the better system than socialism, but we have been cheating the system for a while. Massive amounts of credit have inflated costs, and profits. Illegal immigrants have depressed the costs of manual labor, helping to widen the gap between the poor and the wealthy. And capitalism is a nationalist economic system, not a global one. The only way to make the rules the same is to live in one nation. Dealing with other nations allows them to operate under different rules, no labor laws, no social security, no huge social infrastructure to pay for, etc., etc.
Diversity, globalism, global warming, acting the world policeman, open borders, government unions and benefits all have contributed to the financial disaster we face today. They are all tough issues, each with a dedicated "beneficiary constituency." In times like these, American politics looks like a nasty bar room brawl or street riot. There are going to be losers, and because of the size of the deficit, there are going to be many losers. The choice we have is control the collpase, or just let it happen. And it will. You see the laws of economics are like the laws of physics, they exist and they will ultimately have their will.
Moderates, you sure helped get us here. You are the ones who know better. You are the ones we are told select the winners come Election Day. Well, man up, you are the ones who choose Obama, but you also choose Bush and Clinton, and all the rest. You choose the people who got us to 17 trillion in national debt. Moderation is on trial and the evidence is in.
I am sure some of you are smokin’ hot right now, mad at me for blaming you, for pointing to you and saying this ain’t gonna get fixed 'til you are willing to change. Well, in one sense it's my fault and that of all conservatives, for not doing a much better job of telling reality, or being able to convince the moderate that your kindness needs to be exercised at church, and through added personal charitable donations, and less towards looking towards government as the savior. It ain’t.
Well, we are walkin’ down the path. If Mark Twain were here he could probably tell a good yarn while we walked. But maybe it's better he ain’t here, since we have been distracted long enough from the fixin’ of things. Some people in this nation are fixin’, they are fixin to openly discuss secession when the Union fails.
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