identity theft

Suppose there was a person who took out credit cards and loans in your name.  He buys whatever he wants, and all the bills come to you.  Would you pay them?  I'm thinking you wouldn't.

Yet the government does exactly that.  Every day, the government borrows money -- often from sources who would like nothing better than to have influence over you -- and it borrows it in your name, with the understanding that it will make you pay it back.  Are you planning to pay it back?

I'm thinking you aren't.  Even if you support big government, my guess is that your support relies on a condition that you should only have to pay your "fair share," and that the really big bills will go to someone with the "ability" to pay them -- someone whose "fair share" is considerably bigger than yours.  If you support big government, you're probably demanding that Washington get its books straight, starting with tax increases on "the rich."

There are only around 100,000,000 -- 100 million -- people actually paying income tax in the U.S.  There are eight zeros in that.

The problem is that the credit card balance is 14,000,000,000,000.  With twelve zeros.

If you're counting on the rich to knock enough zeros off of that balance so that you and all the other "non-rich" people can divide up your "fair share," you're seriously overestimating how much the rich have.  Part of the definition of being that rich is that such people are somewhat rare.  There simply aren't that many of them.  Furthermore, being really rich -- with a few extra zeros, like Bill Gates -- is exquisitely rare.  Bill Gates' entire fortune would only run the government for days.  Would you really give half of Microsoft to the Chinese for another week of federal government?

I have a hard time imagining any distribution of the national debt which doesn't work out such that every American basically owes an entire house.  If you're a "poor" American, it may be a small house, but it's still a house.  (Seems ironic, when you consider that this crisis basically started with an initiative for everyone to own a house, doesn't it?)

A lot of people think it's important for the government to have good credit.  Not me.  I want its credit revoked.  I want the cards cut up.  I'm not seeking to bankrupt it, though that's tempting.  But the federal government does need to live within its means.  Our means.  Your means.  We've bought it enough houses.

Grover Norquist once said, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." 

I don't know if I'd go that far, but I can tell you one thing: I'm sick of the damned thing taking out mortgages in my name.

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[John galt & Associates]

Sing the song - raise the banner!
http://www.wix.com/johnandtherebellion/who-is-john-galt

[Mark Anthem]

To free yourself from being looted by big govt, big churches, world peacers, & planet huggers, requires the opposite of what George Will or Ann Coulter prescribe.
Jailbreak your mind from all the Platonic constructs.
There is no Reagan or Limbaugh who can dust off the old concepts or make new ones to lead us back to freedom.
Only accept true reality, not idealized forms which are wildly inaccurate, often purposely so.

[Lee Crites]

The only problem with this post (which, BTW, I thought was very good), is that WE VOTED THEM IN!

As I have heard frequently, we have all of the government we voted for.

If we don't want this kind of out-of-control government, we have to find people who we can support and vote for, and then actually support and vote for them!

I was talking a few years ago with a group of dudes, some of whom were friends of mine and the rest I didn't really know. One of the dudes I didn't know said something like: "I would honestly walk up to Obama and shoot him dead if I thought it would do any good."

One point that surprised me most was how unruffled anyone was at this comment. Some chuckled politely.

He went on to say that if he did, then Biden would become president, and that was probably worse. Or, if Biden was killed as well, then Polosi, which WAS worse!

His point wasn't that he really thought assassinating the president was a good idea or not -- he actually didn't, and neither did anyone else in the group. His point was lamenting that the liberal elite had become so powerful and so entrenched that it was no longer possible to effect a change simply by replacing one bad apple. The whole barrel is already rotten.

I am not a doomsdayer type dude. I believe things CAN get better. I just think that we haven't hit bottom yet -- that huge debt is going to come due, and when it does, the government will go bankrupt, and a lot of people will suffer. Then, those who honour the tenets of the Constitution will find each other, and we will rebuild.

Like all of those examples of people who lose everything, only to rebuild again. Those with the intestinal fortitude will band together and rebuild our nation from the ashes of what it left behind when the elite are done destroying it.

And my vote would be that our new national emblem not be the Eagle, but the Phoenix.