FACT OR FICTION:
As I sit at home and contemplate the
state of the US people and the US government, I continue to come to
the same conclusion. That is FACTS MEAN NOTHING. That the
psychology of elections is now more directed at creating a
perception that can sell to the masses. If that is the case the
looser in that process is REALITY. I now believe that reality has
lost and that he who can create a sell-able spin whether based in
reality or not, wins. I do not believe the Dems have the corner on
this market they just found an alternate reality that sold to the
mass. They created and sold a perception that worked. What would
happened if we dealt with fact instead of manufactured realities??
FACT: 11 trillion( current
obligation), or 16 trillion (including Social Security Promises) or
30 trillion (including all promises and monies owed by the government
now or in the future.) as confirmed by Bernanke today in Senate
Hearings, is an unsustainable amount of money that will bring this
country down if something is not done. $1.5 trillion borrowed this
year alone. That means we were unable to pay our obligations to
everybody with out borrowing money.
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS;
The rich did this to us and the rich should pay more to get us out
of this problem. Apparently, there are now more than 50% of the
voting public that actually think this is the how it
happened (the rich) and the what needs to be
done to fix it (Tax the Rich). Some how by taking money
from the rich we will be able to pay down the debt.
FACT: Government spending continues to
increase every year including this year even with the sequestration.
The sequestration is only .05% of GDP. It is a grain of sand on the
beach. We now borrow about $.45 cents of every dollar we spend. We
borrow because we do not have the $ money and can not afford
everything that has been promised. If we took all the wealth of all
the rich in the US it still would not pay down the debt to $0. Then
what?
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS;
We must tax the rich and raise taxes on everybody above a certain
level. If we do not and allow the sequestration to happen, houses
will burn, because of laid off fire fighters, crime will go way up
because of police laid off., planes will crash and old people will
be cut off medicare. So we need to tax more so government will have
the money to continue all programs or face devastating problems
especially with the elderly and children. The social net will
collapse, the poor will starve, minorities will become second class
citizens again and the RICH will get RICHER and the poor with GET
POORER. We want ours and we want it now.
FACT: If I do not have enough money to
pay my bills I have to suffer the consequences at some point.
Smaller home, smaller car, less cars, no nights out. And so on. I
can not continue to borrow to live my life. If I can not pay off my
debt I am in effect broke. I am unable to continue in the same life
style I had become accustomed. My life style changes even if I do
not want it to.
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS:
the government can continue to borrow as long as somebody will loan
us the money. All governments do this to some degree. There is
Greese and others that have borrowed 2.5 to 3 times their GDP and
the interest alone is the single most expensive item in their budget.
So we have a long way to go and of course we need to tax the rich to
get more of their money. We will be able to borrow our way out of
this mess. This is only a short term borrowing and as the economy
grows we will then be able to pay off the debt. We should not cut
any expenses because to do so would cost us an increase in
unemployment and then there would be less money in the economy to
spend. The government says if we tax and cut spending then we will
be ok. Just do not cut any essential programs.
FACT: we are a country founded on
individual rights and individual responsibilities. Private property
and free enterprise.
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS;
we need to redistribute the wealth. The rich are to rich and the
poor our to poor. There is a widening wealth gap and this is not
fair. It takes a village to do anything. There are certain rights
that citizens have. Universal health care provided by the
government. Universal fairness in all activities. I should be paid
based on my intrinsic human value not on my production in the
workplace. I should be allowed to take under taxation, wealth that
he made and redistribute that to me.
It seems to me that the question that
was asked in the last election was simple. What type of culture do
we want. A culture that will take care of my basic needs (food,
clothing, shelter, education, health care, protection), cradle to
grave or a culture that allows for us to make our own way with out
others or governments undue interference.
It seems to me the answer was not a
vote for FACTS or for individual rights but a vote for building a
massive government run collective. Anybody who has not read Ayn
Rands books should take a look at what one philosopher saw in the
early 1950's and what she warned against.
