because I'm worn out from looking over the pretend "fiscal cliff."
We fell off that cliff long ago and anyone who doesn't realize this is not paying attention.
It's all a bunch of crapola. I refuse to participate. Instead, I'll spend the day running important errands, working on my yearly plan, returning emails, and doing what I can to prepare for what's coming in the future of this country.
I saw the following comment over at American Thinker and found it to be one of the most concise descriptions of a liberal ever written.
The Democrats of today are elitists and authoritarians. I have never met
a Obamacrat that did not think this way. They are totally convinced of
their own superiority. It is part of their personality and psychology.
They got there from many different life experiences and believe that
they are on this earth to rule and herd the rest of the population to
their own advantage. They think they are better educated, smarter, and
morally superior. They also think they should be in the ruling class and
everyone else should acquiesce because of their self identified natural
abilities. They hate everyone that does not think like they do. And
they do not think that all are created equal under the law. They are
contemptuous, racist, misogynist, regionalist, ageist and ignorant.
They hate the very culture that has provided them with advantages which
they refuse to acknowledge because it would mean they have to
acknowledge their own weakness and shriveled little psyches.
“Hi, I’m Senator Roy Blunt from Missouri. As we bring 2012 to a
close, leaders in Washington have an opportunity to kick off the New
Year by working together to solve some of the big challenges facing our
country today.
“At a time when our federal debt’s topped a record $16 trillion, it’s
been more than three years since the Democrat leaders in the Senate
have passed a federal budget, and the Senate Majority Leader has refused
to bring any appropriations bills to the floor this entire year.
There’s an old saying that when you fail to plan, you plan to fail, and
that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.
“Meanwhile, small businesses and farm families don’t know how to deal
with the unfair death tax—a tax that the President and congressional
leaders have threatened to expand to include even more family farms and
even more small businesses.
“More American energy means more American jobs. But unfortunately,
energy projects in the United States are being held back by federal
obstacles of all kinds, and the Keystone XL Pipeline been hanging in the
balance because President Obama has refused to move forward on what
should have been an easy decision for more energy and more jobs.
“Republicans hope to work across the aisle to solve these and other
critical challenges facing America in the New Year. Divided government
is a good time to solve hard problems—and in the next few days, leaders
in Washington have an important responsibility to work together and do
just that.
“Unless Congress and the President act immediately, every American
will be forced to pay for the largest tax hike in our nation’s history
on January 1st. At the same time, the federal government—including our
Armed Forces and defense workers—will undergo deep, across-the-board
budgetary cuts. Remember, these are cuts that President Obama promised
during the campaign would never take effect. And while we need to reduce
spending, we can do it in a much smarter, more targeted way.
“Economists not representing either political party have continually
warned that going over the so-called fiscal cliff will lead to
devastating job losses at a time when American families and small
business owners are still struggling to get back on their feet. In
contrast, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that
extending tax rates for all Americans would create nearly 1.8 million
jobs and increase the nation’s Gross Domestic Product by almost 1.5
percent next year.
“Every American taxpayer got a tax cut in 2001, and those tax cuts
were good for the economy and good for families. Congress’ action to
make the first tax bracket 10 percent instead of 15 percent, double the
child tax credit, and deal with the marriage penalty in the tax code
made a real difference to a whole lot of American families.
“Fortunately, going over the fiscal cliff is avoidable. There’s not
much time, but there’s still time to act. Both President Obama and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have claimed that an achievable plan
is one that can pass both houses of Congress and Republicans agree.
“The Republican-controlled House has taken a step in the right
direction. The House has already passed bills to protect all Americans
from burdensome tax increases. In addition, they’ve passed legislation
to replace damaging across-the-board spending cuts with responsible
targeted ones, and to bring our nation’s record debt under control. But
instead of working across the aisle and considering the House-passed
plan to protect taxpayers, Senate Democrats have spent months drawing
partisan lines in the sand.
“The President’s proposal to raise taxes on the top 2 percent of
Americans won’t even pay one-third of the annual interest that’s now
owed on this massive $16 trillion debt. In fact, the President’s tax hike would only fund the government for eight days. Americans deserve to know: What does the President propose we do for the other 357 days of the year?
“Inaction shouldn’t be an option. The problems facing our country are
big, but they’re not necessarily all that complicated. The President
will never have more political capital than he does right now, and the
next few days will begin to define his second term. He was elected to
lead.
“We still can avoid going over the fiscal cliff if the
President and the Democrat-controlled Senate step forward this week and
work with Republicans to solve this problem and solve it now.”
Math is a strict disciplinarian. No matter how many times you claim 2 + 2 = 5, math is going to smack you upside the head and tell you otherwise. All this non-stop talk about the "fiscal cliff", which for anyone who has been doing the math, surely knows it's nothing more than Kabuki theater to keep the little people of this country occupied and entertained. I refuse to play that game. Let the enemies of this country do what they will. I have no way to stop them, and my energies will be better spent protecting my family as best I can.
Imagine the United
States as one big jumbo jet on a lengthy journey to what our travel
brochures described as the land of “milk and honey.” We are all
passengers aboard this marvelous airbus of state-of-the-art comfort
along with a litany of well-trained pilots, crew members and support
personnel, each taking their respective shifts on this
multi-generational journey. The flight is complete with in-flight
movies, food service, all of the latest technology, along with a flight
staff seemingly dedicated to our comfort.
As
Americans, we boarded this aircraft long ago as we were promised a
destination to the promised land of peace and prosperity by the flight
planners and smiling and most accommodating crew. We were impressed by
the amenities of the aircraft, complete with logos of the stars and
stripes on the plane’s exterior and patriotic songs playing in a loop in
the boarding area. Oh how proud we were!
As passengers excited and enthusiastic about our future, we paid
little or no attention to the backgrounds, bona-fides or intentions of
the pilots or crew. Seeing them clothed in their dress flight uniforms,
standing aboard the aircraft to warmly greet us as the patriotic music
faded quietly behind us, they instilled confidence in our flight
experience.
We boarded, settled in and took off, leaving the
airport in “every town,” U.S.A. behind us as a memory of what once was.
Upon reaching cruising altitude, drinks were served, the in-flight movie
began, and passengers removed their various vices and devices from
their carry-on bags to pass the time during this long flight.
As time passed, however, some passengers began looking out of the
windows, seeing a different and unexpected landscape below. A landscape
that was not advertised in the travel brochures. Questions among a few
passengers began slowly at first, but then the curiosity of many
passengers began to grow. Some began to ask, just what is this
destination of milk and honey? By then, however, the hour grew late as
the aircraft approached the point of no return.
Point of no return
The phrase “point of no return,” abbreviated “PNR,” originated as a
navigational phrase that basically means what it says. Pilots flying
aircraft experience a point in their flight when their fuel situation is
such that they cannot return to their point of departure and barring
any other possibility, must continue to their destination.
Metaphorically, I believe America has reached the point of no return on
our long journey to tyranny and totalitarianism disguised on the travel
brochures as the land of “milk and honey.”
I also believe that we, as Americans, must contemplate our PNR as it
means that we’ve been on our metaphorical journey for quite some time.
We’ve switched pilots and flight crew during our journey, our
pre-selected elected leaders, but never once changed our flight path.
Please think carefully about this, as it serves as a serious indictment
of our elected leaders and those who put them in office. As passengers,
most of us watched our unchanging flight path, doing nothing more than
complain to the flight crew while dutifully remaining in our seats.
Others remained transfixed with the in-flight movie designed from the
start to divert our attention from the events around us. That tactic
alone served the ever-changing pilots and crew well.
Of conspiracy theories and racism
Throughout our flight, some passengers attempted to warn others of
our flight path, leading to a change of pilots and crew. This window
dressing calmed the fears of a number of passengers who failed to
realize that merely changing pilots and crew would not change our
destination. Some passengers attempted to warn all of us of the flight
plan and that the pilots and crew were complicit. For the first part of
our flight, those astute passengers were rebuffed by accusations of
“McCarthyism,” followed by the label of conspiracy theorists, and now,
with the current pilot, racists.
Interspersed among the passengers and quietly assisting the pilots
and flight crew have been representatives of the media, who have done
much to quell the complaints from the cabin. Working in exquisite
synchronicity, the pilots, crew and media were well trained by the
Marxist ideology through the likes of Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt
School, the Fabian Socialists and even the Communist Party U.S.A. They
were in on the flight plan from the start, and most of the pilots, crew,
media and even some of the passengers graduated magna cum laude from
these contemptible institutions of ideological Gomorrah.
Sadly, many passengers simply could not be bothered as they remained
engrossed in the movie or their own devices, even becoming annoyed
despite the ominous and obvious signs of trouble aboard the aircraft.
The enlightened minority was rebuffed over and over. Complicity and
complacency always work well in tandem.
We are still aboard this aircraft, and the commotion within the cabin
has been increasing as we continue to travel at just below mach speed
toward the critical point of no return. A number of previously
complacent passengers changed from being complacent to inquisitive, and
others from inquisitive to plotting the retaking of the aircraft. Yet,
the spirit among many of the travelers en route to this unsavory
destination continued to be split. In fact, a few of the spiritually
renegade among us are still determined to join the mile high club, and
have even been cheered on by both the complicit and complacent. After
all, why not enjoy the flight while you still can, they reasoned.
Meanwhile, as the true flight plan of the aircraft began to become
more well known among the passengers in the cabin, the accusations of
conspiracy, lunacy, and the mother of all conversation stoppers, racism
were shouted with greater tenor and more effective frequency. Some of
the more vocal passengers, mentally and emotional bloodied by the
accusations, chose silence. Others rebuffed the accusations but did
little to inform or educate the other passengers of the greater picture,
hoping that at the very least, their partial acquiescence would keep
their frequent flier miles safe and intact. Sadly, no one will emerge
with such benefits of this one-way flight.
The point of no return?
As I see it, the question today is whether we have reached the point
of no return on our journey aboard the aircraft known as the United
States of America. I believe we have, and as such, our options have
become extremely limited, and are diminishing with every mile we travel.
We can choose to retake the aircraft, but in so doing, will have to
fight a gauntlet of other passengers and flight crew. It will be ugly.
We can choose to do nothing and simply hope for the best, in which case
we deserve the welcome we receive upon landing at our ultimate
destination.
Despite the obvious and adhering to their own normalcy bias, an
overwhelmingly large number of passengers will continue to demand a
change of pilots and crew, believing that will change the destination.
Yet others will continue to be mesmerized by the in-flight movie, opting
to listen to lies of the crew and other passengers in on the flight
plan from the beginning.
In any case, we are about to learn the fate of the “Maiden of the World,” Flight U.S.A.
just another catchy one-liner that means absolutely nothing.
I like things simple and to the point. Why waste hundreds of perfectly good words when something can be condensed down to its most easily understood smallest part.
