Can This Union Be Saved?

Before we answer this question we should address an even more important issue. When all is said and done, is the United States of America, in its present state of disrepair, worth saving? I would argue that it is not and the sooner the union is dissolved the better. We are no longer the land of the free; rather, our once great bastion of freedom is now a land predominated by freeloaders who expect the government to take care of their every need from cradle to grave. Our leaders, on both sides of the isle, care little or nothing about the nation’s wellbeing; instead, their only goal is to retain power so that they can reap the monetary rewards inherent in their political offices. In this respect, how is it that so many of these political hacks started with nothing and ended up as multimillionaires? Do you think for one minute, that people like Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reed, Sheila Jackson Lee, Diane Feinstein or Barack Obama, to name only a few of the most obvious culprits, could have become so wealthy if they had spent their careers in the private sector? The chances of that happening, obviously, would have been slim to none. Just think of what might have been the fate of that witless wonder Joe Biden if he had been forced to work at a real job. Some conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, still cling to the faint hope, slim though it might be, that our present sorry state of affairs can be turned around at the ballot box. Mr. Limbaugh seems to believe that republicans lost the last election because Mitt Romney ran a bad campaign. Nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, Obama won the presidency for the second time because so many Americans are now dependent on the government, for their very survival, that they have no choice but to vote for the political party that provides day care for their children; puts clothes on their backs ; provides a roof over their heads; and even throws in a comfortable prison environment with accommodating female guards (or male toys as the case may be), weight rooms and flat screen TVs, if they should be unlucky enough to be apprehended while committing their misdeeds. No, the majority of low IQ unproductive democratic voters are not foolish enough to stick their collective fingers in the eyes of those who feed and clothe them. These people may not be the sharpest nails in the keg, but they are not stupid enough to kill the golden goose that feeds them either. Nope, Romney lost because he didn't promise the average voter enough goodies, it's as simple as that! In any case, as things now stand the country is lost. There are not now, and never will be, enough tax payers to fund the enormous welfare state that is twenty-first century America. As I have pointed out many times before, the simple fact is that today, with interest rates at all-time lows of less than 1%, 25% of all federal revenue goes to pay the interest on the national debt. If the economy were to recover, and interest rates were to increase to the historical norm of 3% to 4%, every single dollar the federal government takes in taxes would go to pay the interest on our monstrous national debt, there would not be a dime left over for any federal program including national defense. No, from a financial standpoint, as well as a moral standpoint, we are finished as a country. Before leaving this segment, I want to emphasize the point that there is no way to compromise our way out of this mess. This is so, because the combined debt of the federal and state governments is now so large that it can never be paid off no matter how frugal the State and Federal governments become. Thus, at this point, it makes little or no difference who is calling the shots in the federal government. The same is true for most of the state governments. For example, the unfunded liabilities in the state of California exceed, conservatively, over 200 billion dollars. No one has the slightest idea how this debt will be dealt with when it comes due, no one! None the less, like ostriches with their heads buried in sand, Gerry Brown and his liberal co-conspirators in the state legislature continue to ignore the realities of the situation while crowing about the fact that they have passed the first balanced budget in over ten years, a meaningless exercise in futility if I ever saw one. The reality of two Americas. We are living in a country that is so divided morally and politically that there are, in reality, two Americas. The inhabitants living on the west coast, mid-west and north-east are primarily European Socialists who care nothing about the constitution or the bill of rights. The majority of these people have no moral compass and have little or no concept of fiscal responsibility. They live for the moment with little thought of tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, let alone the tomorrows of our children and grandchildren. The inhabitants of Middle America remain, for the most part, a God fearing group of fiscal conservatives whose views do not differ significantly from those of the country’s founding fathers. They detest the taking of innocent life, especially if it involves the murder of unborn babies, and believe that the right to own a gun is the most important constitutional right of all. They reject, out of hand, sodomy, same sex marriage and the liberal’s attempts turn criminals into victims and victims into the instigators of crime just because they were walking peacefully down the street with a hand bag containing a credit card or two and a few dollars in cash. In short, middle America rejects every aspect of liberal life. The chasm in fiscal responsibility and social morays between a liberal walking the streets of San Francisco or New York and a citizen residing in Oklahoma City is so wide that it cannot be breached by any group of politicians, no matter how great their wish to compromise. After all, when all is said and done, how can you compromise with the devil without giving away everything you hold dear? In this respect, are we really prepared to agree that it is OK to kill babies in utero if they are younger than 22 weeks old but not OK to butcher them if they are a week older? Are we ready to concede that it is OK for Johnny to marry his grandmother or maybe his dog Blackie? Are we prepared to allow primitive peoples with rags wrapped around their heads to practice Sharia Law in the United States of America as long as they confine their barbaric practices to the ethnic communities they establish within our borders (this is exactly what has happened in Great Britten). Finally, are we willing to provide endless economic support to large segments of the population, who refuse to work, as long as they agree to support self-serving liberal politicians when it comes time to vote every couple of years? No, obviously, there is no middle ground that will allow a compromise between the amoral liberal majority who are firmly entrenched in the mid-west and both coasts and the constitutional God fearing conservatives residing in the middle of twenty-first century America (I realize that that there are a conservatives living in places like California and New York, but there are too few of us to make any real difference politically). No, it seems clear that a divorce is inevitable and, I believe, the sooner the better. The question is, how will this come about?