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What Excuse Will We Have?
What excuse will we have when someday, down the road, the bill for our comfort descends on our children and grandchildren? Through numerous taxes, licenses, permits and regulations, various levels of government already take about half of what you earn. What will it be five years from now? Ten years?
The national debt of almost $7 trillion is rising by $1.68 billion a day, $613 billion a year. So far this year, interest alone on that debt has cost us $280 billion. This year¹s annual deficit is about $500 billion. The government will take in about $1.7 trillion and spend more than $2.21 trillion.
What excuse will we have that we stood meekly by as our own government, with its fraudulent ABC trade deals (NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA, etc.), deliberately sold a once-productive nation down the river and made us dependent on other countries, many not friendly to us, for most of our daily needs? Our annual trade deficit sets a new record every year and is expected to surpass $500 billion this year.
What excuse will we have for our blind loyalty to the Democratic or Republican Party, the two-headed, money-eating 'Republicrat' monster that we created and cling to, regardless of the crimes they commit against the U.S.
Constitution and the American people?
Both parties are eye-deep in responsibility for the trade deficit and the national debt. Not to mention our immigration disaster and virtually every other social ill that threatens the stability and security of the nation.
How have we allowed our state and local leaders, not to mention federal politicians, to sacrifice sensible, enforced immigration policies and the laws of our nation for political expediency? How long can our welfare state continue when in Arizona alone free medical care for illegals (mandated by the federal government) has resulted in a jump in costs to the state of 500 percent in two years?
The Republican Party is supposed to be "conservative." Has anyone noticed that the Bush administration is responsible for the biggest socialist spending budget in history, as well as history's most deadly, one-time assault against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (the Patriot Act)?
But Republicans must stick together "for the good of the party." That's why California got Arnold Schwartzenothing instead of a principled Republican like McClintock.
The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the working person.
Pardon me, but have any of you loyal Democrats noticed the party leanings of the enviro-wackos who have turned most of the nation's industrious rural communities into pockets of poverty, welfare and government employment, and our forests into tinderboxes?
These folks don't like manufacturing, either, so they've 'helped' American workers by pressure tactics to send all those jobs overseas. The U.S. hasn't seen so little manufacturing since the 1940s. These Democrats also don't like power plants, paper mills, or sawmills, so they're mostly gone, too. Go work at Wal-Mart, guys and girls, the largest private sector employer in Arizona and the position of promise for our educated masses.
What excuse will we have that we didn't have guts or brains enough to demand real statesmen for leaders instead of political pawns of internationalists, gay groups and Hollywood? Do we know enough and care enough to find people who believe in the U.S. Constitution and abide by it, whether they be Libertarian, America First, Populist, Independent....or Democrat or Republican?
Have we through our fears, emotions and susceptibility to government and media propaganda allowed our nation to become involved in perpetual, costly war, with our countrymen killed every day, breaking the rest of us while enrichening the war factories and a few international contractors? If our justification for war was number of terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks, it should have been Saudi Arabia we invaded, which accounted for 13 of the bad guys. The situation in Iraq now resembles the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, with no end in sight, and our enemies grow in numbers every day.
What will be our excuse when all our farmlands are filled with weeds or developments? Our farmlands in Snowflake, Concho, St. Johns and all over the country are the most valuable assets in our communities. Without food security, we have no national security. Both parties have collaborated on policies that have stolen water rights and destroyed the value of family farms and ranches, transferring it to international banks and multinational corporations with loyalty to nothing but their bottom lines.Without community stability and productivity, we have the quarreling and factions and generally gobbledygook, fractured cultures that increasingly characterize the nation.
What excuse will we have that while we dithered and met and argued and blamed and sued and did studies and talked about 'projects' and 'partnerships' and "collaboration," the federally managed forests were killed by beetles and consumed by wildfire, along with homes, towns and human and animal species?
What will be the excuse of citizens, state leaders and county sheriffs who bowed humbly to federal oppression against people and property in their states and allowed the destruction of their forests and homes?
Constitutionally, it is the duty of the state and the local sheriff to protect their communities. Remember the Tenth Amendment?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In case you forgot, the powers delegated to the federal government are very limited and they do not include managing the lands of the West.
Speaking of constitutional powers, two of my grandchildren were taking a police studies class at Eastern Arizona College in Safford. The class of high school graduates now in college to enforce "the law" was asked how many amendments there are in the Bill of Rights. Only my grandchildren, Josh and Kathryn, knew the answer.
The way things are going in today's society, they would probably soon be diagnosed as troublemakers and prescribed Ritalin.
What will be our excuse when all these things are finally seen as they really are?
Payson.cc © 2004 Carrol Cox
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