http://gneissguy.com Re-crystallizing life's nonsense with the intense pressure of reason. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://gneissguy.com/2009/08/time-to-give-up/ http://gneissguy.com/2009/08/time-to-give-up/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:19:37 +0000 admin http://gneissguy.com/2009/08/time-to-give-up/ How much longer do you think this house of cards can last? We have a government that no longer bears any resemblance to the Constitution. We have fiat money that no longer bears any resemblance to real money. We have politicians that no longer bear any resemblance to the citizens they are supposed to represent. This country is now a hard-scrabble of good intentions, bad ideas, and down-right thievery.
There is no other way to explain 95% of government spending today. Let’s take money from the working citizens and give it to the retired. Let’s take money from the healthy and give it to the sick. It’s devolved to the point that the politicians have now said let’s take money from those driving nice cars and give it to those driving clunkers. Sooner or later the bill is going to come due and while the politicians say they are not driving us to socialism they are already quickly running out of other people’s money.
The US managed to have a few wars come to it in its first hundred years, but now we have waged wars on foreign soil for almost one hundred years. Our founding fathers warned us that our freedom at home would be lost to the threat of foreign menaces. Each war we fight outside of this country has eroded our freedom at home. With this last war against “terror” our Bill of Rights is threadbare.
Within the US we has seen the evolution of the police forces from sheriffs with little more than badges to para-military police departments in our major cities that would count as a larger military than 75% of the world’s countries. We have the highest imprisonment level of any nation at any time in the world’s history. Even back to Roman times Tacitus’ words ring down to us that “The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws.”
So I ask you again, how much longer do you think the US can last until we are reduced to a footnote in the textbooks of history?
I don’t think the old gal has much left in her. Now I just cringe every time a politician runs to the public yelling about how the government needs to “do something!!” Necessity is the creed of dictators and the mantra of slaves. If you count yourself as not amongst the sheeple, you need to take a hard look at the necessities our government is operating on right now. I wished I could tell you the answer is that we just need to tell our politicians to stop it but I can’t. Now I think the best we can do is to prepare for the coming collapse in the best way we each know how and then hang on for dear life. Good luck to us all.

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