Debt, Socialism, and its ramifications

   The United States is in the throes of a financial crisis that has the ability to destroy our great country.  We are suffering this fate because Congress has not and will not live within its means.  Our current situation is dire to say the least of it.  We are on the precipice of whether we will continue to be the leader of western civilization or will we become much like the Roman Empire ... to be nothing more than a chapter in the history books.

    Our march to this financial calamity was not paved with the ideas and ideals from which our country was founded.  Far from it, the road Congress took to reach this point of no return is paved with a socialist ideology.  Its our government's folly with socialistic programs and Marxist ideals that has led to the depletion of our treasury and the burdensome mounting debt that is soon to bring about what no other nation in the world could do ....the collapse of the United States.

    Right now if Congress cut all discretionary spending there would be about a twenty billion dollar surplus.  Sounds good right?  Well that would mean no one in the government would get paid.  It would mean that every office, every dept, every service, absolutely everything the federal government currently does would cease.  Taxes would remain the same and all of the tax revenue but save the twenty billion dollars would go to fund the ever increasing expenditures of our entitlement programs.

   Entitlements ... Congress' folly with socialistic ideas and ideology.  These are the root cause of the disease that has been slowly eating away at the foundation of our country.   Congress has taught trained the American population that there is no need for them to be responsible, plan, or even be concerned about taking care of themselves. No need to do any of that, because Uncle Sam will do it all for you. Congress has used coercion by giving shelter, food, services, and care to those who are capable of providing it for themselves in return for votes.  Our politicians understand that if they enslave a large enough group of voters through the means of entitlements, that they can assure they will remain in power.  This cycle has played out in election after election and those wanting to grasp power and those that wish to remain in power continue to up the ante of what they will give people for their vote and now the country is suffering under the weight of this debt.

    We can see the ramifications throughout our society from this practice. Just in recent history people in New Orleans sat around and waited to be saved instead of being proactive in attempting to get to safety on their own.  They sat and waited while their benevolent caretaker did nothing but watch them suffer and die.  The shooting at Virginia Tech ... students sat still in classrooms as deranged gunman made his way from room to room.  When survivors were asked why didn't they attempt to escape by breaking the windows, the reply  given was, "They did not want to get in trouble."  Unbelievable!!! They sat there and awaited fate and took no action to save themselves.  These are just a couple examples of the learned traits that our government's foray into socialism has taught our people.


    The socialistic experiments that our government has preformed on our society has taken an even greater toll then the insane spending.  Our nation, our government, and our people have turned there back on God.  Socialism teaches its followers to put faith in man and man's creation ...government.  This has been by far the most destructive aspect of Congress' socialistic endeavors. It has brought about the end of our moral compass and it has decimated the traditional family.
 
    If  our country is to survive we have to deal with the root cause of our problems.  That is to say we as a nation have to deal with  the entitlement problem and if we wish to become an enlightened prosperous nation again, we need to return to God's divine grace.   If we don't, we will continue on the path of losing our precious republic and our country will morph into a Marxist totalitarian state.


Sic Semper Tyrannis!!!