Plus, I'm lazy:
It's really cute how Republicans think they're the party of fiscal responsbility. Like, puppies and rainbows cute. The traditional conservatives will say "WE'RE the ones for economic stability, not the neo-cons who have bastardized our philosophy," but that's a mostly bullshit interpretation, as the trad-cons have been out of power since basically Eisenhower. Yes, Nixon tried to keep the tradcon ideal of low taxes and balanced budgets afloat, but gave less than a shit about their other ideals of personal freedom or noninterventionist foreign policy. Although, to be fair, that last one was mostly the fault of Nixon's trained werewolf Kissinger, the vile, curly-haired shapeshiter responsible for more war and death than Idi Amin and Hirohito put together.There, now that wasnt so bad, was it? Maybe tomorrow I'll have some words of my own.
The reason why deficits have gone up astronomically in every Republican administration in the last quarter century is due to an obscure economic strategy known as "Starve the beast." It is, in essence, a blueprint for bankrupting the entirety of the American government so that when it finally collapses the government's spending can be re-engineered to follow conservative principles. And it makes sense. Lowering taxes and increasing spending is sure to please the voters, whereas raising taxes and/or cutting spending is political poison.
The architects of this philosophy seem the believe that when the government falters and cuts off its avenues of traditional spending, people will just accept it as a simple truth. Which, is of course, ridiculous. It will be anarchy. Old people who can't pay rent. Young people who can't go to college. Mothers who can't feed their children. Veterans who don't get their benefits. Children who can't go to school. The insane, thrown out on the streets. The sick who can't get medicine. The country will explode.
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You are right and it is very frustrating the people do not understand the seriousness of being in debt and of other countries holding the note. But these same people walk out and fill their credit cards for more clothing, more shoes, more crap that they probably do not need because it is the “American Way.”
I'm wondering how long the "extreme culture" of our country can possibly last. How far will people be willing to go before realizing they can go no further? Eventually, I think people will realize the emptiness of it all, but I'm pretty sure that we wont figure it out (as a society) until it's far too late to avoid a really horrible period of re-adjustment.
On the other hand, (as a society) maybe what this country needs is a really unpleasant period of suffering. Certainly, compared to the rest of the world, we've had it pretty easy for the last century or more, and it'll probably take something really nasty to punch through the armor of our hubris.
i was needing something positive and uplifting and you were there for me man. *sniff*
It's the least I can do.
really.
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