Posted by
Steve on Monday, December 07, 2009 5:00:24 PM
Two long dead Colombia University professors, Cloward and Pivin, wrote the blueprint on how to destroy America. At the time, nobody took much notice of what they wrote except for the extreme left wing in the country. Now, many years later it appears that their plans are being put into action by the Democrat Party.
The plan was amazingly simple. It was basically overwhelm the system until it can no longer respond. At the time, the system was extremely strong and their plan did not seem worth notice. Now, after about a generation of Democrat leadership in the Congress, the economic system was primed to be overwhelmed.
Along came our illustrious leader, Barack Obama, and he put the plan into action. It had probably been put into action at some time in the past, but it was put into action in earnest in January of this year. Any Democrat will deny ever hearing about Cloward and Pivin. They will also deny knowing anything about the plans that they wrote about. But, when allowed to make their own decisions, any Democrat will immediately institute those plans as if working from a script.
Right now, America is broke. We cannot afford what we already have committed to, let alone anything new. Yet, Democrats in Congress are working overtime trying to institute new programs to spend even more money that we do not have. If this were their own homes, they would not look for more places to spend money they did not have. They would look for ways to cut back their spending to match their income. That would be the sensible thing to do. Then, they would not make obligations that they could not meet in the future. Our Congress, led by Democrats, is completely out of control when it comes to spending.
When you look at what Democrats want to spend money on, you have to shake your head and wonder. How can anyone justify …? That is the standard question I have when presented with the fantastic amount of pork put forward by Democrats. Republicans are not blameless. There are Republicans that are just as bad as Democrats. They are probably worse because they belong to a party that professes to believe in living within its means. But, any list of top ten pork barrel spenders almost always has at least 9 Democrats and sometimes more. Conversely, when you look at those that spend the least on pork, you find almost exclusively Republican names.
Very soon, we are going to have to get a handle on the entitlement spending that we have committed ourselves to. Our unfunded liability is so far in the red that it would be impossible to meet the obligation. That means my kids and grand kids and great grandkids will be paying for our excesses. That is inexcusable. We have to have a national debt that is at $0 as soon as possible. I am not just talking about balancing the budget, I am talking national debt, the total amount we own.
The day of reckoning is coming soon. With Barack Obama in the lead, we may accelerate that date up to 2010 or 2011. The choices will not be pretty. People will not be happy. It is always easy to cut when it is someone else’s ox. When it is your ox being gored, then it is a different story. I think the American people are ready to make those decisions. There are the dependent classes that have been carefully cultivated by the Democrats that will resist. They have to be overcome and we have to be successful if we want to pass on an America that means something to our children.