Posted on 12/19/2022 5:16:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
Yes, there is a way. But is there the will?
Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war.
Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling food and fuel costs amid “normal” seven-percent-plus annual inflation, bread-and-circuses entitlements, a nonexistent border, a resurgence of racial tribalism, pandemic violent criminality, and humiliation abroad—all these pathologies are easily cited as symptoms of a sick patient. Our crises are not as the Left maintains—a nine-person Supreme Court, the Electoral College, or the filibuster—all distractions from existential problems the Left largely created.
So, what are the therapies and prognoses for America?
In the spirit of constructive rather than blanket criticism, here is a partial, 10-point plan of national recovery.
Cut the Debt
Americans’ national debt is now $31 trillion. That is about 123 percent of current GDP. The liabilities are unsustainable. We run annual deficits of $1.6 trillion. These financial obligations will eventually ensure that rising interest rates to service the debt crowd out essential spending for national defense and the general welfare.
Or in extremis, in the not too distant future, the government will be forced to default on what it owes the “rich” bondholders and foreign debt holders. Or the government will be forced to confiscate private wealth, as for example occasional crazy suggestions to nationalize and absorb 401(k)k retirement plans into the soon-to-be-insolvent Social Security system. Or the state will simply print millions of dollars to pay off obligations, Weimar-style.
In addict style, the more we come to realize that our binging habit cannot go on, the less we can practice self-restraint.
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Totally agree with everything you said.
Add to your comment... “and the more they print money, the higher the inflation, and the higher the intetest on the debt.”
It’s a spiral
You are exactly right. They have put everything in place that insures they will maintain power and control.
There are plenty of good people still in this country and fortunately most of the bad politicians infest the heavily populated states. Since each state only gets one vote, like half a Senate the odds are in our favor.
THE solution is already in the Constitution. Article V Convention of States. 19 have signed up so far 15 more needed. Now that America is a fake Republic and in the beginning stage of Dictatorship what have we got left to lose?
That would be a terrible idea. Each state legislature gets to select their delegates. Can you imagine the crazies states like CA, NY, MA, MD, OR, and WA will send? Then the other states will send RINO squishes that will be terrorized by the BLM & Antifa mob.
Fortunately is is not up to chicken little cowards if we have this convention or not. May your chains sit lightly upon you and prosperity forget you were one of our countrymen.
Since all the broken things benefit the communists, who are in control of most of the federal and many state governments, they will never get fixed. Any efforts to fix them will be loudly condemned ad-nauseum as “racist” and “white-supremacist”
And they count the fake votes.
Are you serious? You must have a fantasy that the Art V convention delegates will be like the original FFs, astute statemen. Where are people like that now? I say the people now in gov’t will select the same types as themselves, crazed commies and spineless RINOs. You get flustered when your bubble bursts and resort to insults.
They will never say to themselves, "My God, what have I done?"
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