Have You Heard the One About the Debt Crisis?

It's politics as usual in Washington. The Republicans, the Democrats, President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senator Harry Reid, all represent one party-the party of BIG government. The debt crisis deal was the every bit the same boondoggle ObamaCare was. Remember Pelosi's "you can't find out what's in it until you pass it" or something like that?

The idea is the words, especially in bills, don't really matter because the intention of the guiding elite is all that counts. Well, step right up don't be shy, we were all just flim-flammed by the same con-game again. How do we know? Simple, does anyone really know what's in the Bill? No. And, you still think that is by accident?

Spending, deficit and debt will continue at the usual rate. The politicians claim the bill saves about two trillion over a decade. Figuring the annual Federal budget to be $5 trillion per year (and including debt, future obligations and interest it easily is) that shrinks the budget by a whopping four percent. Is that the best they could do and more importantly, does this mean we get to keep Harry Reid's "Cowboy Poetry Festival?"

The immediate effect of the budget boondoggle has been the Dow plunging, gold skyrocketing, and credit agencies threatening to lower our rating. Meanwhile, life in Washington goes on and did you ever really wonder if the politicians who passed this bill lose any sleep over making their next light bill or mortgage payment on time?

While going back and forth about the debt crisis, we forget the fact that the government (both federal and local) act like they have a right to your earnings. They don't. We have ceased being subjects of royalty since 1776. Our elected politicians act like they have some moral and ethical right to decide how much of your income they can spend, and if you are lucky, they will give you enough back to live off of after they've spent what they wanted and as they please, and even take a cut out of it to pay their own salaries. 

Politicians and government have absolutely no moral claim to anyone's earnings whether they are a president, a Congressman or a majority of voters. Yes, tyranny can exist under majority rule, just ask slaves in the pre-civil war South. We are not subjects or slaves and the politicians are not lords or masters. They do not have a right to place us in virtual tax servitude.

Government exists to protect your right to keep what you earn not steal, take a cut or siphon it off every way it can think of. But,  don't take my word for it, read it for yourself; "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."

By the way, if you don't recognize this it is from the Declaration of Independence, which states the fundamental purpose our government was created, to protect our right to be FREE from government oppression of all kinds (this principle is called LIBERTY) and this includes wealth redistribution!

You wonder, if government doesn't take our money by force, how will we pay for things like these protections guaranteed by the Constitution? Well, it is not my problem to figure out how to keep the beast well fed and  fat and that is another question, but it still does not change the fact that it is wrong to steal from citizens.  But, like any merchant, the government needs to persuade us to VOLUNTARILY support it's functions or charge user fees and if it cannot support itself, then this means that  the services must not be valued. Regardless, this does not somehow automatically grant it a morally right to take our labor and money via force, intimidation, threats and worse. These were the very same things it was created to protect. And, if it did have this right to take what it wants from citizens, then who do we need government to protect us from?

The debt crisis is simply a sign that things are completely out of control, like Greece, and government is too big, spends too much, and takes way more than it needs.  

We have turned this country from a country of unabashed liberty and unashamed limited government into a Marxist's dream come true. We've created an Orwellian nightmare of cradle to grave nanny state entitlements and nonstop pervasive government intervention from which there is no hiding or escape.

According to the latest CBO figures, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other retiree programs constitute approximately half of non-interest federal spending. We have transformed the government into a gigantic retirement company and soon to be health care insurer and the demographics that will access these programs is exploding.

Ron Paul once said that "Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers." I can't, for the life of me understand how anyone sees no ethical problem with taxing today's children to pay for what they've spent today.

There needs to be a much better way and no, tinkering around the edges won't fix it. What we've been doing for the last many decades is not the answer. Forcing people, rich or poor, to give more and more is not the solution to anything but making us all poor. Then again, maybe that is the desired effect?