Truth hurts.
“If we aren’t being taught how to grow our own food, how to take care of ourselves and our families, and how to live without the need for huge governments, banks, or corporations — as our ancestors once did — then we aren’t being educated; we are being indoctrinated to be dependent and subservient to the system.” ~ Gavin Nascimento
That is the original text (above) that came with the image to the left. Below is what I wrote.
I will continue to point this out until the cows come home. Our forefathers knew that giant government, whether by senators or King, could not sustain itself forever. Eventually you run out of money.
First, you run out of general money. We’ve already done that. Then you run out of spare money, the stuff you tucked away in case of emergencies. We’ve run out of that too. Then you run out of other people’s money to spend. Believe it or not, we’re past that as well. Until we stop spending money we don’t have, we will never get better.
I wish I had better words to explain this. To me, it’s just common sense. You look at the budget and you go. I don’t have enough money to get that thing. It doesn’t matter how much I want it, or even how much I need it. If the money is not there, you just don’t get it. That is what our government needs to do.
I think that Musk started it, but then so much of it got reversed that it’s like it never happened at all. I’m horribly disappointed by that. And now, everybody still wants to spend money. While I think the Democrats are doing more of it than the Republicans, the Republicans aren’t blameless either. We can’t afford any of it. We can’t afford to pay for the very basic things in our country right now.
Do we all want to be rats in a drowning ship? I don’t. I’d like to see the government shut down until every last penny has to be pinched so hard that it screams. I want to see all of the people in DC not getting paychecks, maybe not even when they are in office. Definitely not when they’re not working. I know that terrifies a lot of you. It scares me too. I have aches and pains that I need to address, and maybe they’re not as bad as some of my friends, but I think I at least get the general idea. Those safety nets are really important. The problem is that those safety nets are full of holes right now and they have been for decades. I’m pretty sure you all know that, because you don’t get the help that you probably need. Some of that is because of bad spending habits on the part of the government, a very tiny part of it might be part of bad spending habits on the part of people receiving money, but the biggest part is people who are defrauding the government. And while I do mean some people who are getting safety net help when they should not, I mean looking at every red cent that our government spends. I don’t want any money going to other countries until we have made sure that our people are safe.
Some people might think that it’s horrible that I would say that, but I’m much more interested in seeing my disabled friends getting the help that they need without having to not get married or pretend or whatever. I just want them to be able to get help. And as long as there’s money going to people from other countries, whether it’s vasectomies for people in Iran or knitting lessons for folks in Scandinavia, it doesn’t matter. However useful or necessary or not necessary those out of country items are, none of them are more important than my friends and my neighbors.
United States of America Citizens first!
Everyone else if there’s enough leftover. Somehow, I don’t think that will happen.
a good way to ‘splain it – has the government shutdown negatively affected your life in any way?
if the answer is no, then you don’t need big government in your life..
“I think that Musk started it, but then so much of it got reversed that it’s like it never happened at all.”
There is a reason why Elon Musk left government service. Putting people on Mars is significantly easier than making government efficient.
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There is a reason why governments only seem to grow. Once a government starts providing something, it is damned near impossible to get rid of it. I need look no further than the weather. How many agencies does the government have for studying the weather? At least three. NOAA, National Weather Service, and NASA. Why? Oh… they all focus on different aspects of the weather. OK, fine. Why not combine them into a single agency and reduce administration and overhead? The specialist in oceanic weather can work right alongside the specialist in high altitude weather, etc… and all report to the same manager, and use the same administrative (payroll/HR/Admin) staff. But… nope. It will never happen because politics.
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A few years back, Mark Levin published The Liberty Amendments. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liberty_Amendments)
One of the amendments proposed is a regular reauthorization of all agencies/departments as well as all regulations. Other proposed amendments include strictly defining the “commerce clause” so that it cannot be used to justify Federal overreach. (Another contributor to huge government).
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The problem is, Congress will never take action on any of the proposed amendments because it would reduce their power. And the States could call an Article 5 convention, but good luck getting the big powerful (mainly Democrat) run states to agree to limiting the Federal government powers. Too many handouts to consider otherwise.
Mr. Levin’s ideas make some sense. Then again, it would be far more significant if we could get the Federal government to obey the Constitution as it stands today. Amending it doesn’t help much if the plain English language words of the Constitution continue to get ignored by all branches of the government. Consider for example all the “independent agencies” — none of them are allowed to exist at all, as is very obvious from the plain text. Nor are most of the cabinet departments. Nor is the fact that large swaths of Western states are “owned” by the Federal government in direct contradiction with Article 1 Section 8 text describing how and for what purpose the Federal government may own any part of a state.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the Federal government has got anything to do with most of the stuff that we do.” — James Clyburn (D-SC)