Americans can no longer lift the monstrous beast of debt?
The beast of national debt has grown too large for America to lift. But, we keep feeding the monster!
In the early days of network television, there was a show that decided to test an old notion that if you lifted a young calf every day, then, little by little, you would develop the strength to lift a fully grown cow.
The TV producers invited a robust young farm lad to bring his small calf to the studio every week and lift it in order to test the concept. The farm boy came on week after week and was able to heist the animal until one day, when the cow reached a nearly mature size, the poor lad was no longer able to lift the almost fully grown cow, thereby, proving there are universal limits to our abilities.
Politicians have never learned this lesson. Democrats, Republicans and Independents have fed the federal financial calf until the animal has grown into a raging bull that we can no longer lift. The solution proposed by the current administration is to stimulate economic growth by piling on even more debt in a futile attempt to stimulate our ability to somehow lift the fully grown economic burden. It ain’t gonna’ happen. The task of trying to lift this monstrous beast of debt will fall to our children and grandchildren who won’t be able to lift it either – leading to the eventual downfall of the American Dream.
If we don’t stop feeding the economic monster NOW, we will never recover. It may already be too late.
Unfortunately the free enterprise amateurs we have in charge of the present administration don’t understand this basic concept. The entire cadre of the White House and Congress is made up mostly of people who have never experienced the real world of economics. Oh, some of them are good in theory but, as we all know, theory never trumps reality. The majority are professional politicians and political hacks who have made their living feeding from the public trough. Their solution is to simply raise taxes (especially on that segment of Americans who really do create jobs) to provide additional revenue for supporting their expanding agendas. Feed the calf!
Too few of them have never had to meet a payroll; deal with real-world economic concepts; face business competitors; create a private sector job; pay for their own health care; run a real business and deal with the realities of life. Some of their actions often cause me to suspect that their spouses don’t even allow them to handle family finances.
Folks of this ilk decided decades ago that the secret to reelection was to create, among voters, the illusion of a government endowed “heaven-on-earth.” So-called social programs fell into line — one right behind the other. In their grand view, no one should have to work very hard for basic subsistence. The government should create a net underneath those who fail to take full charge of their own basic needs. The net grew larger and larger to the point that it is now possible for generations of families, who have become so dependent on government support, that they no longer have reason or ability to climb out of the cycle. And, they vote accordingly.
Before knee-jerk liberals term me “hard-hearted,” let me once again point out that I have always supported those among us, who simply cannot for reasons of health or economic distress, provide for themselves. But I have little sympathy for others who simply refuse to meet their human obligations.
To add even more weight to the economic beast, this same coagulation of “do-good” Americans and their politicians decided, along the way, that we must also bring prosperity to the whole world – using the taxes gleaned from Americans who do work hard and achieve varying degrees of financial success. Foreign Aid was invented after WWII. We have sent hundreds of billions of tax dollars from hard-working Americans to former enemies, present enemies and dubious friends that have oft times wound up in the hands of crooked politicians around the world. Southerners would have enjoyed some degree of this benevolence after the Civil War but none was forthcoming. Instead we are among the Americans today providing our tax dollars to benefit unappreciative foreigners.
And now, unbelievably, many Americans and their like-minded politicians have decided that we owe this same heaven-on-earth existence to everyone who enters our borders illegally. This administration believes it so strongly that it is willing to drag into court any state that tries to meet the problem head-on because the federal government has not met its constitutional obligation to secure our borders. The federal court has issued a stay on the meaningful provisions of the Arizona law, thereby, thwarting one state’s effort to correct the federal government’s failure to uphold the law. So, it’s time for the Obama gang to put their efforts where their mouths are and start enforcing the federal laws already on the books. And, secure our borders!
Meanwhile, the massive feeding of the federal financial cow goes on and on.
If we don’t stop it soon (November, 2010 and 2012?) we will go completely over the cliff of no return.
That’s if we haven’t already done so!