Posted on 06/05/2025 5:06:55 AM PDT by EBH
We spent decades kicking that rusted can, telling ourselves the road would hold if we just bought more time. But now the can is gone. It rusted through, crumbled into dust. The road behind is littered with the ruins of old promises, and ahead lies a choice.
No easy paths. No shortcuts.
One direction follows the same broken trail, it feels familiar, but hollow. The other, a quieter road through unknowns, dappled with light but demanding more of us.
This isn't just a political moment. It's a human one.
Some will see this image as the common man. Others might see the last leader who tried to drag a broken system back to its feet.
Either way, the choice remains: do we keep trying to salvage the unsalvageable? Or do we walk forward — without the can — into whatever comes next?
The road's still there. The only question now is whether we have the courage to walk it.
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It’s not just that the path forward is blocked or short — the very container that held our progress, governance, and trust has deteriorated.
The system’s surface may look intact, but beneath, the rust spreads silently until critical failure is inevitable.
And no amount of pushing or kicking the can down the road will fix it, because the can itself has lost its integrity.
Have you ever seen anyone end well with unsustainable debt?
Roman empire tried that and met itd demise.
Third Reich tried that with invasion of Russia and it finished it off
History is replete with empires over spending and dying.
If you ignore history, you will be doomed to repeat it.
Homosexuality marriage and homosexual adoption of children is legal in every state. I thank God for the pushback of the Trump administration, however no institutionalized Sodomite country has ever NOT been destroyed…
I think a better analogy, the can is now a 55 gallon drum, filled with concrete.
I think just the opposite it the case. The can remains, but the road has reached its dead end into the mountain of debt. The only way forward is for the legislature to d its that it has been unable to do for far too many decades now dure to political fighting that accomplishes nothing.
Thanks.
Congress has been kicking the can for decades. Instead of dealing with issues, Congress has a tendency to pass a bill that creates a new agency in the Executive Branch to deal with the issue.
Now come the Courts to say the Executive Branch does not have authority to deal with the issue.
I think a more appt comparison it to WW I.
All of the great European Empires were brought to an end by WW I.
Germany was defeated (more accurately deceived in to surrender) and stripped of its empire.
Russia was so economically exhausted that it fell to revolution.
Britain and France were also so economically drained that they could not maintain their empires and slowly crumbled from within.
Europe and the US are eating their seed corn by not only waging forever wars but also importing unskilled aliens and spending unending money on social programs.
Wide spread starvation and civil war are visible on horizon. A course correction is advisable.
Kane at CFP posted this headline a couple of days ago—
‘U.S. Deficit for every year from 2000 to 2024.”
I added up the numbers and the total was over $22 trillion.
However, as we all know the National Debt in 2000 was about $5 trillion and the National Debt in 2024 was over $36 trillion.
So can anyone explain how the US Deficit over 24 years totals $22 trillion, but the National Debt increased $31 trillion?
https://x.com/stats_feed/status/1929955396858310940
Interest on the debt? And Powell right now is not about to lower rates
Agreed, you see a mountain I see a crumbled government unable to function. A congress that can’t see the path forward for all the trees even though there is still sunlight trying to lead them.
2 + 2 = 5 ?
I think savings should be rewarded at 3% + Inflation.
can anyone explain how the US Deficit over 24 years totals $22 trillion, but the National Debt increased $31 trillion?
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USAID + Cloward- commie-Priven ?
In other words, they talk a good talk, but the talk is just that, talk. They have no intention of following thorough, because they do not know how to lead.
“””Yep, absolutely correct. The Republicans love being the underdog, because they have no real ideas, which is why when they are given control they haven’t a clue as to how to capitalize on that control and so they squander it.
In other words, they talk a good talk, but the talk is just that, talk. They have no intention of following thorough, because they do not know how to lead.”””
You are correct. The GOP loves it when the DEMS are in power so the DEMS can pass socialized medicine AKA Obamacare or let ten million illegal aliens into the USA so cheap labor can work for GOP donors.
The GOP loves to complain about what the DEMS have done, but we all notice the GOP never undoes what the DEMS have done.
How often were we told that they would reverse Obama (ACA) Care. When they were put back in control, it became obvious rather quickly that they hadn't even planned how to replace it.
Fir me, that flipped the switch in my head to start thinking differently when it came to the Republican Party as being nothing more than controlled opposition. I even contemplated the need for a new party. That was short-lived, because the time it would take to create a new party would not pay dividends that were realized when the Republican Party was created to replace the Whig Party.
Therefore the only answer was to follow what the leftists did with the Democrat Party, which was to seize control of it. that was the only way forward, but we did not have people in that supported the Republican Party who were available to seize the party, while Democrats did, and they had the backing to make it happen as well. This is because the supporters of the Republican Party were busy working & raising families.
But with MAGA ides\as, we can seize the Republican Party, which is why we need to get more vocal to generate interest in the movement by the now disaffected supporters and recruit the disaffected youth, mostly young men to become avid supporters. Charlie Kirk has been extremely successful with the young men. Now if he, or even a woman, can find the key to generate the same enthusiasm within the female youth, the MAGA movement will grow even stronger while the Democrat Party continues to slide.
“The simple truth is: No matter how hard you work, no matter how strong this economy grows, no matter how much more tax money comes to Washington, it won’t amount to a hill of beans if government won’t curb its endless appetite to spend.”
- President Ronald Reagan
Lewis Herms Live announcement Monday June 2nd Regarding California and the Nation’s Politics
This is about California politics as well as the entire nation.
IF what you said is correct, why not JUST SAY IT like you did?
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