If there were ever a time for the Tea Party movement to visibly flex its collective muscle, it is now.
The clock is ticking...not on the debt...but on the Republic as we know it.
We are fast slipping into authoritarian rule. If Congress does not soon reclaim the legislative power it has given away these past 80 years, we are doomed.
My post on another one today seems to be appropriate here also. If readers have read it already, please skip:
We need to consult the wisdom which prevailed at the beginning of the American experiment in liberty in order to view today's "issue" in a broader perspective.
This "deficit and debt" issue did not have to be. It came about because our so-called "leaders" violated essential principles for any nation which values liberty and individual freedom. What "they" have done is bring us and future generations to the brink of slavery (serfdom).
The ideology they hold dear is the antithesis of the ideas underlying our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. That ideology comes from Mao/Marx/Lenin and Keynes, not Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Adam Smith, whose ideas value the individual in society, not a political elite who plan and decide and superimpose their collective values above the Creator-endowed rights of their fellow citizens.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40