Liberty Reborn

This week it is time to consider unthinkable option number three with regards to the federal budget. Previously we have discussed unthinkable option number one, do nothing and keep spending more than we bring in, and unthinkable option number two, raise taxes to make up the differences between revenues and expenditures.

The first unthinkable option, as I mentioned at the end of last week’s article, is to sit back, do nothing different, keep on letting the federal government spend more than it brings in, enjoy the ride and hope like hell that you are one of the lucky ones to die the day before everything goes kablooie leaving a huge mess for our posterity.

Democrat Representative John Conyers, husband of the corrupt and convicted former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers, has actually said something that makes sense. It is a rare moment indeed for the often bumbling Congressman who I suspect on more than one occasion has had trouble dressing himself because someone wrote “left” on his right shoe

There is a looming crisis barreling down the tracks at Americans like a runaway locomotive. Yet most are completely unaware of this pending danger. This danger is none other than man made Hemispheric Climate Change. Yes, mock me if you like but the data is clear.

Ashley Judd can certainly not be accused of using her God given brain. At least not without causing me to laugh at anyone who would make such a claim. Just a few days ago she stood up in front of NARAL, a group that thinks murdering babies in the womb is cool, and completely flushed with excitement over the election of President Obama said that is was, “so nice to live in America again.”

It is a damn good thing for the press that I am an ardent supporter of a free press. If I were not, being as incensed and livid at what passes for a “press” in this country as I am right now, I would probably be calling for their regulation to ensure that they actually cover things that are really news in their so called newscasts.

The entire fiasco going on right now involving banks, investment houses and other financial institutions can be summed up with a simple four word question; “What do I care?” Yes, this question applies to the attitude exhibited by nearly all involved from those in government, to those that ran these businesses to the very people themselves that put their money into these institutions or took out loans they could not afford and knew they could not afford. For years they have been applying an attitude of simply, “What do I care?”

Standing at the parking meter, a young man scrounged around in his pockets for a quarter so that he could have a few minutes to run in to the market and buy a loaf of bread. However, as his hand fumbled around inside the pocket of his clean and pressed slacks he realized that he had no change other than a couple pennies and his larger denomination notes.

In the opening pages of Ayn Rand’s best seller, “Atlas Shrugged”, we find a bunch of people standing around outside of a stopped train staring at a red light. Why the red light is on none of them know for sure, but it is a signal of danger ahead.

The popular phrase used to describe John McCain’s presidential aspirations has been the “Straight Talk Express”. According to the popular myth, John McCain “tells it like it is” and lets you know exactly where he stands. Those that have bought into this myth have flocked to John McCain as someone they can trust. Others have been scared onto his campaign, accepting him as by far the lesser of two evils.