I can understand your frustration. I don’t like the situation any more than you do.
I’m very good with math and financial math, and I’m here to tell you that what you see happening in Europe is our fate very soon unless we U-turn out of this idiotic, mindless support of banking sector grifters as well as “free trade” policies which export 10’s of billions of dollars in real wealth out of the US every month.
Space will always be there. If we don’t go now or in five years, it will still be there in 20.
If we don’t get spending under control now, ASAP, within the next couple of years, the future of the US is not assured. Conservatives who really care about the future of the US will have to put aside their designs on public spending (military, space, etc) and start down a road of determining what we really need. We want a space program. We don’t *need* a space program.
We need a military. We don’t need a F-35 multi-role/multi-nation jobs program posing as a fighter.
And so on.
If fiscal conservatives want to really slash the budget, then we’re going to have to play fiscal aikido: The liberals will say “We won’t cut entitlements/welfare/etc until the military budget is cut.”
So write legislation to cut the projects the provide jobs in their districts - and cut them hard, hard, hard, then come back to the table and say “Done. Now show us what cuts you’ll make.” If they don’t come through, start hammering them in the press and at election time.
The endgame is drawing much closer, much faster than I’d previously thought. The Ivy League crowd in DC think that they’re oh-so-terribly smart are whistling past the graveyard, and anyone who says that they can turn this situation around without making the population feel some pain now is lying. They might not believe they are lying because they still believe the bromides about “growing our way out of it,” and “taxes and regulation can be slashed and the private sector will just bloom...” but the truth is, they’re lying. The only way to turn this around now will involve big, dramatic cuts, big changes in immigration, trade and domestic policy and even then, we won’t turn the situation around quickly.
“..I’m very good with math and financial math, and I’m here to tell you that what you see happening in Europe is our fate very soon unless we U-turn out of this idiotic, mindless support of banking sector grifters as well as “free trade” policies which export 10’s of billions of dollars in real wealth out of the US every month...”
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Hi NVDave — yes, I agree 100%. My addressing of the space program was a sidebar of the horrid situation we are in. It will take getting rid of the present primary problem, by “flushing the toilet” in November as just a starting point. Then a healing process must begin which will be long and very hard work. But getting the government back to a government for and by the people will be step one to rebuild confidence in the people that we even have a government work FOR the people....and shows it through action. It will take many small steps and will have to be managed in a very serious manner.
Given that, I pray that the toilet gets flushed in November because, well, you know where it will all go if it does not. But I continue to be optimistic now that our White House horror story is clearly showing itself to even the most naive of the electorate. Some will never care — just pray for those that do care about America.
Thanks much for the chat!!! God Bless America.