Well, so far, so good — the great partial government shutdown of 2013 has been exposed for what it is —an Orson Welles spoof rivaling the Y2K apocalypse that wasn’t, and Obama’s sequester warning that was only nonsensical yapping designed to scare old women.
After running out into the yard Wednesday morning to make sure that there were no pieces of sky lying around – I, like probably the majority of Americans, returned to my normal daily activities.
We have a President who is fully loaded with beans. He can talk —boy can he talk. Talk. Talk. Talk. His talking got the United States’ buttocks deep in the Syria mess. His talking almost got the United States involved in a shooting civil war in Syria. “Let me be perfectly clear . . .” “I am confident that . . .” The things he is clear about, he is not – and the things that he is confident about – we shouldn’t be. So much for the teleprompter in charge!
The one thing that President Obama never talks about is the national debt. Treasury Secretary Lew thinks we will run out of money later this month —most financially minded individuals would think that we were out of money $17 trillion ago. When you have to borrow more money every day —where’s the money?
There are two giant asteroids headed towards the United States —the national debt and Obamacare. But the unbiased media and the Administration see all problems and threats to our nation being represented by the Republicans. Somehow the media missed the statements by former Defense Secretaries Gates and Panetta which lambasted Obama for his lack of leadership and strategy – but obvious weakness. And so it goes —Obama and his hacks provide the words and the media adds the music. If the words come from a detractor, the media becomes like the three monkeys —see, hear, and speak no evil.
We read in the newspapers that 900,000 federal workers have been furloughed as “non-essential.” In a debt-ridden society, why are we paying any government employee who is non-essential in the first place? And continuing that line of thought —why is the President traveling around the country beating on his political opponents and scheduling overseas trips when we are hemorrhaging cash? President Obama the candidate promised to bring America together and in a manner of speaking he has – 37% of our entire debt has been transcribed to us by the One. We are left to wonder why he heads for the golf course when America needs leadership. Sorry, that is a rhetorical question —Obama and leadership is an oxymoron. Since the Administration chose to close down military commissaries to make it more financially difficult for our military to feed their families —why doesn’t Obama, as an act of good faith and to share the pain — forego a couple of his footmen – or perhaps cut back on a few “ladies in waiting” for Queen Michelle?
Some federally- related facilities that are not even funded by the federal government have been shut down. Traffic cones were placed in front of the WWII memorial in Washington, DC —the old veterans ignored the cones and barrier tape much like they did the obstacles presented by the Germans and Japanese. Good for them —ignoring ignorance is a long- cherished American trait!
Obamacare was designed to insure the masses. Before Obamacare there were about 30 million uninsured —when Obamacare is fully implemented, there will be about 30 million uninsured. Before Obamacare, the poor were being treated without cost —when Obamacare is fully implemented, the poor will be treated without cost. The poor will be cared for —the rich can take care of themselves —the guy in the middle, who works the jobs, raises the crops, and fights the wars will be the one hurt by Obamacare. By my count the Obama Administration has unlawfully amended, or partially delayed Obamacare 19 times to exempt some organization or special interest. The National Caller contends that nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers were for gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, and fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s California district. And of course the people who voted for the Obamacare train wreck exempted themselves from the program. When someone refuses to eat the very food that they cooked —common sense dictates that none of us should want to eat that meal!
The fun is just beginning —next on the plate is raising the debt ceiling so that America can continue to borrow money from the Chinese and Japanese – and allow Bernanke to fire up the printing presses and spew out a few trillion in monopoly money. What a swell party —it makes one wish that we could get more idiots into the mix in the nation’s capital.
Have a good week. Bill Shuey is a free-lance writer from Murphy, NC. He can be contacted at: washuey@brmemc.net.
With all those facts and we are still doomed, I don’t see anything changing unless there is a new revolution and the people storm Washington with picks and shovels and extricate every single elitist there . Do you see that happening? I don’t and if it does happen it will be too late.
17 trillion in debt and rising ! Every economist is saying there will be a financial meltdown . I think it will be a worldwide correction and when it happens it will be catastrophic and millions will die from violence and starvation in a matter of weeks . It’s gonna be worst than anything in history and only a very few will survive . I’m going to do my best to be among them God Bless America
When the US goes it will drag down pretty much every other country on the face of the earth (N. Korea possibly being the exception). Granted there will be pockets of civilization, but suspect that those will get raided for food, weapons, equipment by the have nots.
Under the republicans, we had “man stealing from man”….
But under the Democrats, it’s now the other way around.
And since they fixed it so nicely, we’re now subject to even more of it.
Yeah, both parties are exactly the same once the veil is rent; only the labels have been changed to protect the guilty, and continue their robbing of the gullible.
“When will then be now?”… “Soon!”