Osama bin Laden's last words: "Jimmy Johns?"

No institution is more covetous than government. Whatever Caesar sees he covets. Government covetous goes far beyond the Biblical covetous of the Tenth Commandment to encompass not only revenue, property, and dependency, but succeeding generations as well to enslave them under crushing debt.

Before the beltway big spenders receive any more revenue, first they should have respect for the revenue that has been provided, for the revenue that will be provided and most of all, respect for those who provide that revenue. Instead of having respect for the revenue they just keep raising the debt ceiling.

The beltway big spenders who refused to come up with a budget in 2010 had no respect for the revenue. This is catastrophic, grandiose, arrogant incompetence. People who continue to spend beyond their means are spending addicts. They have no respect for anything in the pursuit of their covetous desires. How refreshing it would be if beltway big spenders stopped being revenue speculators and actually became budget managers.

 When you challenge the behavior of an addict, regardless of the basis for that addiction, the addict will cry, scream, project his behavior upon those who challenge him and engage in emotional blackmail to continue his addictive behavior. In pursuit of their continued spending beyond our means, the beltway big spenders are dissemblers, confusers and consummate agents of mendacity. Furthermore, those in government will say anything to prop up the illusion of their own indispensability.

 It appears that the Federal government is just now beginning to grasp the reality of the decline in income and corresponding revenue short fall. What was their response? To spend more! The beltway is a land of illusion and fantasy, where they print money, conjure up scams and appoint czars to lecture us on how to live our lives.

I have faith in the 2010 freshman representatives sent to Washington to cut and control spending and reduce the size of government. Challenge the old guard. Frankly, I don’t care what they have to cut to put our fiscal house in order. This is baseball season, pitch them inside; if that doesn’t work then throw right at them. Nothing bad will happen by reducing the size of government. Only good things will ensue from a fiscally responsible government.

 Those who have spent this country into a sea of debt that grows with each hour are not worthy to have their names etched onto any public edifice. Those who are encumbered with debt are always envious of those who are not encumbered, who are productive, efficient, and create bounty. The debtor then covets the property of the productive, efficient and bountiful. Since the United States government is the biggest debtor on the face of the earth, it is little wonder that it is covetous of wealth that has yet to be created by future generations.

 One more thing, for the legislators, don’t pat yourselves on the back until we’re back in the black.

Dr. K, from my corner of Main St.

They still don't get it. He doesn't get it. They still think there is a revenue stream out there. The belt way spending strumpets are three full years behind individuals, small businesses, and corporations who have had to curb their own spending.  Congress couldn't even come up with a budget. I'll say it again: That is catastrophic, grandiose, and arrogant incompetence. And the President in his state of the Union message didn't seem to understand the urgency of curbing federal spending. This is the same man who didn't care that our utility bills would necessarily sky rocket under cap and trade.  Once a spending strumpet, always a spending strumpet. The intervention occurred in November and they didn't pay any attention to it.

From my corner of Main Street

Dr. K

They couldn't even come up with a budget.  And that is their constitutional duty. They couldn't even do that. The government exists on continuing resolutions to fund it. Instead of addressing the economic issues that plague the country, they, instead, focused on Obamacare.  They couldn't even be bothered to read that bill. The leadership scheduled the most important legislation (important to taxpayers) until the lame duck session.  And they expected to get all of the other junk done that was left over in the time remaining.  That's efficient use of time.  Hey, are you going to read all the bills this time? What kind of catastrophic, grandiose and arrogant incompetence is that?  It is just that: catastrophic, grandiose and arrogant. And, all of a sudden the sorry beggars are worried about the deficit and the debt. Well, pilgrims, you are two years too late. 111th Congress, one sorry incompetent bloated bunch of grandiose beggars. Good riddance.  Hey, are you still wringing your hands about what you have to get done before the end of your sorry run?

From my corner of Main street

Dr. K

 

The Enemy Within

Who was it who thought it was a good idea to spend the money in the Social Security trust fund? And when was it?

Who is it who cannot or will not live within a budget and continues to drive up the national debt?

The President proposes and Congress disposes. So it must be those who have proposed and those who have disposed. This proposing and disposing has gone on a very long time.

Can it be called treason to financially ruin the United States of America and the prosperity of future generations of its citizens? Can it be called treason? They are, collectively, worse than Bernard Madoff. They smile, and lie, and smile some more and lie some more. Then they spend money like no private citizen could even imagine.

And we, we are worse than they, because we have believed them for so long. Now they say, the President and Congress, that we must spend more and more and more, during a recession. They are still way behind the curve. 

They say, I guess it’s the media, that he is an intelligent man. There is a certain intelligence there, there is a lot of arrogance, and along with that there is a good measure of stupidity. And he is a very good liar and projectionist. “I am not an ideologue, I’m not.” There were other statements from other Presidents: “I am not a crook.” “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”

There are those who still approve of him. On the other hand, how many, by this time, really have a bad case of buyer’s remorse?

And he talks and talks and talks. He takes off his tie and rolls up his sleeves to project a common image, a working man’s image. How many have really stopped listening and when they see him on television, again, say: Not again. Much of it is the same, even verbatim from the summer of 2009. Yes, he is doubling down on his agenda: Cap and Tax, healthcare reform, and more stimulus and now a huge proposed budget that doesn’t even address the reality of where the economy is and what the American people are thinking.