The Politics of Desperation

The Poker Girl has an announcement to make. She has officially become somewhat of a libertarian. Observing Democrats, Liberals, Republicans, Conservatives, etc has caused me to reach the conclusion that they have one main thing in common- they are desperate. And what has caused their desperation? The answer is simple. They have all participated in bastardizing the Constitution of the United States. Instead of being a union of states, we are now in debt to the federal government. We have, with the help of Congress and the President, over many decades, become a nation of whiners, complainers and dependents as well as a nation of taxation. The participants in the federal government have urged us to become whiners, complainers and dependants. We have been in collusion with them- electing them, booing them, supporting them and hating them. But regardless of what side you, your parents or your great grandparents took, make no mistake- we allowed them to continue to use taxpayer money. We allowed them to continue to bloat budgets and pay for programs that benefitted the few but cost the many. We allowed them to even begin an income tax to begin with. And what have they done? They diverted our attention. Partisan bickering, name calling while pleading to the average American to continue to open their wallet for the poor and disadvantaged. And we, as a caring nation, have ignored the brutal reality that eventually the piper must be paid. And to furthur the ruse, the money is taken right out of our paychecks- so that we wouldn't notice the money was gone. Paid out of our futures, our children's futures, and paid out of our very deaths. We have lost control of ourselves. And now, the federal government faces the hand in the cookie jar moment. The money is gone. Used as "federal funds" as if the government did not take money from us but rather magically willed it to appear. Taxation is now done to appease the voracious monster that is the federal government, and it is about to punish the best and the brightest- the risk takers who run businesses-and it will, sooner rather than later, destroy the most magnificent experiment in the history of the world- the USA.
Poor people are no better off now than before politicians decided to use them as a smoke screen to grab your money. All the medicaid and free clinics has made them no richer and no healthier. There are legitimate arguments to be made that poverty will always exist and that welfare has created generations of dependency. So we are asked to provide more money. The expansion of these programs, despite any proof that they are of benefit or that they provide more than volunteer groups could do, has finally reached the wall. Rather than a nation of strong states that have balanced budgets and govern their own citizenry, we are a nation of weak states at the mercy of federal regulations and actions. The craftier congressmen and women have used "federal" money to pay for their own state deficits and projects. The states with stupider representatives never see their money back. They rob Washington to pay for California. Federal spending has always been a dead end road. But no one seemed to care that the end could happen. But it has. If our federal government had not become so comfortable with robbing its citizens, we would not be in this predicament. At all.