Tea Anyone?

Conservative House members believe that Obamacare will ultimately bankrupt our country, whose debt has soared even more dangerously under Obama's presidency, and that to make no attempt to stop it or dramatically modify it, right now, would be both financially and morally unconscionable.  Fiscal rectitude is at the ideological heart of American conservatism.  The Right might feud over social issues and foreign interventionism, but is eternally wedded on the social and economic ill-effects of over-spending government and punishing debt. Would the left behave any more 'reasonably' than the House Conservatives if a national ban on abortion or the progressive income tax were passed into law? Governments make mistakes, and they need to be fixed.  And akin to misbegotten war, frequently there are few, if any, effective half-measure retreats.  Obamacare is such a mistake.... and a super-majority of American's now agree.

And for those of you who argue that Obama was reelected and the people voted for this and it was confirmed by the Supreme Court I ask you: would you empower a drug addict to define and create policy for the availability of illegal narcotics?  And what would you prescribe for a cure for a nation of drug addicts voting on those same measures? The majority of Americans have now become  addicts... and pusher-man-government programs are the narcotics.

What's it going to take to break our intractable, inexorable addiction to more and yet even more government spending?  I don't have a realistic answer and it very well may be pointless and tactically ill-timed to try to attempt to derail the Oblivion Express right now... around this issue.  But one shouldn't disparage, demean and excoriate a perhaps slightly overzealous, fiscally prudent and principled minority of citizens for trying.... and I can say with apodictic certainty that the requisite trillions of budget cutting required to maintain our nation's financial viability will never happen via reasonable discussion and compromise.

Might a default on the nation's debt now, by choice, perhaps prove ultimately less damaging than one by necessity later?


M.D.T.

Fanatic in Chief

After digesting the latest State of the Union address, it appears to me that Obama's lifetime goal just very well might be to be perceived as the most caring and morally indignant President in history irrespective of any and all lasting damage his policies might incur to the country's economic health and long term fiscal viability.  For him I believe it's always all about fairness and never effectiveness. His is, methinks, almost solely a moral crusade. What prudent, practical and rational person could believe that raising minimum wage won't destroy jobs and reduce employment opportunity? That national Head-Start will actually improve long-term educational performance? That fighting Quixotic global warming won't raise energy costs and undermine economic recovery? That imposing more taxes on top producers won't deter business investment? That extending state-subsidized health care to the uninsured and those with pre-existing conditions won't raise costs?  I contend that the President and his acolytes couldn't possibly be so stupid as to believe these programs can deliver as sold, but, in fact, they just can't bring themselves to stand by passively in a world, they perceive, whose wholesale inequities so deeply offend their delicate and refined supra-egalitarian sensibilities.* There appears to be no limit to neither their shotgun social solutions nor their willingness to print money.  Obama is, to date, among Presidents, perhaps our nation's boldest and most disconnected embodiment of morally intolerant liberalism run amok. It's difficult not to arrive at the conclusion that the more his policies fail, the more ardently he believes in them and the more of the same he advocates. We're, in effect, doubling and tripling down on failure.  And that, by any sane measure, is the very definition of ... fanaticism.

The Crux of the Biscuit is that we as a nation have tacitly and perhaps unconsciously collectively agreed to the idea that it's OK for government to instigate unproven, potentially economically disastrous and ill-conceived social experiments in the name of fairness and compassion: that our system is so malevolent and effete that at worst, radical measures are required  and at best, acceptable.  What beats the hell out of me is why anyone running around spending someone else's money while simultaneously getting rich themselves meets our standards for a Nobel prize or a distinguished seat in our nation's Pantheon.  But, then again, our standards are the most vital issue of all now ... aren't they?.


Why people with high levels of mental skills and rhetorical talents would tie themselves into knots with such reasoning is a mystery. Perhaps it is just that they cannot give up a social vision that is so flattering to themselves, despite how detrimental it may be to the people they claim to be helping.     Thomas Sowell
 


M.D.T.

Blame the Blamers

According to exit polls, 53% still blame Bush for our ongoing economic malaise. And that's exactly why some of we conservatives think that Romney losing may have been the best thing - because no meaningful national redirection can come about until Americans quit blaming the bogeyman and put the blame for what could be a decade plus long recession where it belongs: massive government overspending and borrowing - massive government direct and indirect capital misallocation  - unprecedented levels of regulation - government readopting historically dis-proven Keynsian monetary policy and - themselves. Or, in layman's terms: 1) guv spending way more than they take in 2) letting some guv-guys who can't lose their jobs or money invest your tax dollars 3) guv telling everybody what they can sell, where they can sell it and how they can sell it  4) guv printing money to pay for what they can't wring out of you or borrow from someone else and 5) your own bad self.

One can't rule out the frightening possibility that the majority of American's might never figure this out.  Especially now when you have these new Progressives in power, actually telling us the entire system is rigged. Blaming big-business and the rich is so much easier for those selling it and for those emotionally impaired enough to buy it.  As many banana boat nations have demonstrated, blame can become a way of life...it's always the imperialists!*  Gee. Let's see. Which is easier ...  blaming others or not looking quite as hard as you might for that new job to get off unemployment; blaming others or having to repay all of your student loan back as agreed; blaming others or admitting it was your own bad decision to buy a house costing twice what you could afford on an adjustable rate mortgage; blaming others or paying for your own birth control pills; blaming others or else admitting that your child's educational failure might be due to something besides underfunding; blaming others or giving up your hard lobbying-won tax deduction; blaming others or admitting that government green job creation is a black hole; blaming others or being too proud to take government handouts;  blaming others or taking responsibility for your own life  .... ad infinitum nauseum.

We've barely begun making the difficult, requisite changes required for a meaningful, long-term economic recovery... and it's no one's fault but they, the bloody, blaming 53%.  Sorry Mitt, Paul and Ron. You couldn't convince them. You were 4 years too early.  They just don't get it yet. Sadly, since it's still too early, it means it's probably too late. The Dems think they can just magically freeze the clock on the next perhaps even more debilitating financial meltdown by borrowing trillions...by propping up the less productive. But der ain't no magic dat change when da sun come up or when it go down. And the next time it goes down, odds are the night may get even darker and colder.  If the owl of Minerva ever flies, this time she'll fly at dawn, and it's only just past midnight... 'a long, long, long, long, time, before the dawn'.**

*Yankee go home!  Damn it all!  We're the Yankees and we are home!  All right then...China go home!  Mexico go home!  Tax the rich!  It's not my fault!

Incredibly enough Hugo Chavez, post mortem, blames gringos for his cancer!  Quote 'Claimed the socialist leader had been 'infected by imperialist enemies'

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**Speak out - You got to speak out against the madness - You got to speak your mind - if you dare
Crosby Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone

M.D.T. 

Not on Facebook

My perception is that this long paralyzing decession has sapped much of the animal spirits out of the entrepreneurial class in America - a class whom with each passing year, methinks, is growing smaller as a percentage of population and who is becoming increasingly discouraged about their future prospects. We've more Americans that want to make a difference, but fewer with the intellectual autonomy, character and drive to do so. President Obama mirrors this new emerging, less competitive, individualistic and independent national character.  The majority of people now either want or need to be taken care of to some greater or lesser degree.  The people who drive our economy, the people who create jobs and aspire to make life better for the many, the people who pay 40% of the taxes, the people who end recessions see an America, the bulk of whose citizens are shunning responsibility and in respect to fixing the country's most serious problems, have no sense of practicality whatsoever: they see an America that is made up of more people looking to procure aid from the system than not, who care more about being green and narcissisticaly feeling good about themselves than working long hours*, doing what free markets dictate needs to be done, or getting materially ahead and raising a family.

There are now two generations of Americans most of whom don't even desire the American Dream as it has been known in the past; a house in a good neighborhood, two or three beautiful kids, a job with a solid and respected company ( not many of those left by their measure! ) Virtually all of their scarce disposable dollars are being spent on $4 coffees, the next generation of smart phones, Netflix subscriptions, video games, gym memberships and sun glasses.  They have been conditioned to be deeply suspicious about the profit motive. They believe greed is the primary economic mal de force. An America with nominal economic growth is OK by them.  Materialism just ain't chic. Better no economic growth than driving more carbon-fueled cars around, fracking our beloved terra firma, increasing the population, suppressing anti-democratic uprisings around the world, bio-engineering our food supply, having uninsured citizens, consuming a greater share of the world's resources, or increasing inequality.  These are our new national values.  These are the values Obama mirrors.  These are not the values required to build a new and prosperous America.  These are the values of national economic decline. 

The only thing sustainable about sustainability is stagnation...

*Speaking of working long hours have we ever had a President that works less than this one?  


M.D.T.

Monsters From the Id

It's more than likely impossible to reasonably explain mass societal self-delusion on an historical scale.  Our present toxic, socio-psycho-cultural-economic declinations reminds me a great deal of a central  theme from the great classic sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet, where we, like the advanced Krell civilization, are having the foundations of our free society destroyed by our own unconscious 'monsters from the Id'. How much personal liberty are we willing to relinquish and how much economic and intellectual self-punishment are western societies willing to self-inflict to absolve themselves from their original sin.... the God-given gift/curse of self-consciousness.... and the accompaning both enviable and pitiable awareness that we, as a species, forever and intractably, stand alone outside of the natural order and all of creation looking in - that we can never truly understand our role in the natural order - that we'll forever be, from ourselves, at our very essence ... intruders.



Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?  Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has a great empty hole through the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.  Wyatt Earp: What does he need?  Doc Holliday: Revenge.  Wyatt Earp: For what?  Doc Holliday: Being born.

From the movie Tombstone

M.D.T.

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M.D.T.

A Reckoning

It occurs to me as we watch the slow and painful spectacle of European disintegration unfolding that ultimately the productive members of society will have to pay back every penny of that squandered and borrowed by the unproductive and that the only way to separate the productive from the unproductive is with markets. Those wizards of smart, our social, political and financial elite, in their vainglorious  attempts to subvert and manipulate markets, ultimately will have no choice but to numbly stand by and watch as the irrepressible economic tsunami of the previously sublimated fiscal reckoning engulfs all the western democracies and beyond.* Markets can never be truly subverted, only diverted. The books will be balanced and the 'unseen hand' cares little about the morality of whom it chooses to be injured or spared in a crisis.  Markets operate consciously and unconsciously, manipulated and non-manipulated, ethically and non-ethically ... whether anyone recognizes them or not.  And as petty as it might sound, our economic future is by-in-large determined, disproportionately and unfortunately, by those other than whom we have in almost every historical instance, collectively chosen to blame.

*How many cans are there at the end of the road?

M.D.T.