We are being eaten alive by what we owe and yet when you google "national debt" you will find articles that mock concern. That just doesn't make sense. The borrower DOES becomes the lender's slave.
We collectively gasp to think the yellow bird would be cut. Let's set the knee-jerk reaction aside and think deeper about our economic issues.
Big Bird is unquestionably a force for good and no one is trying to deny people a good thing. But there are other ways to be creative and let private enterprise step up to put on the show. Our government shouldn't have to ask another country for money to fund a TV show, no matter HOW good it is. And the same is true for Jim Lehrer. Don't we already have news outlets? Why do we need government-run news? Iran has a government-run news, but why would our government pay for such a thing? The answer is...because once money was funded. But now times are different. Rethink!
Just as with Big Bird, no one is trying to deny rights (and in this case, the reproductive rights of women). It's not as if birth control pills were not available in the past, or available now, or will be available later. They were/are/will be.
The question is posed...is it the government's place to begin funding birth control and abortions? Even setting aside the moral aggrievement and staying with the economic point...shall we go hat in hand to the Chinese so this can be funded? That's pretty ironic since we regard our would-be "benefactor" as uncivilized when they implement their one-child policy.
When the president says oil production is up in the country, it's because of private production. Any land under the president's control does not enjoy increased production; he has shut down offshore production as well as drilling in the Gulf.
We need that Keystone pipeline for jobs and for oil. We need to open up the lands that the president shut down.
Americans don't want to depend on the Middle East for oil. We do not need to send billions to South America to pay for Brazillian drilling so that we can then turn around and buy the oil back from them. Isn't that convoluted economics? Besides, they promptly took our money and signed a contract with China for the oil (another popularity shaft for the president).
What about the fix for the overall economy? 'How's that workin' for ya?'
Last month the president flooded the economy with 23 billion in paper money. That's something even HE originally said was the worst thing you could do in a down economy. They called that Hail Mary "quantitative easing" or QE3 (since it was the third time they had tried it). Others called it dangerous.
The president is cool and can sing like Al Green and pal around with celebs. But he has not even run a kiosk at the mall and his ideology keeps him from understanding the economy. Let's be more careful who we let tinker under our hood.
We accept it for what it is. We call it what it is. We act against it.
The Obama foreign policy is what Charles Krauthammer calls "accommodation, apology, and appeasement". Such policy is perceived as weakness in the Muslim world...as evidenced by the flames throughout the Middle East and the assassination of Ambassador Stevens and three other men in Libya.
Yes, terrorism is an economic issue, but our expenditure cuts stop at the military's door. The future plans to slash our military are ill-advised and make us more vulnerable.
America seems to be at a crossroads as we survey the future. We can continue to be consumers living large, or we can live within our means. Our country's grand opportunity to bless the world is waning.
Please, America...let's think reasonably about spending our money. Let's create new avenues to keep the things worth keeping (think yellow bird)...and jettison the things that might have worked in the past, but just don't meet today's criteria of lighter/leaner. And no new fat.
To save the government, send it to Jenny Craig.
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