The hill worth dying for....

 

 

Run for your lives! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

This is an update to a post from last year.

While out cutting the grass yesterday afternoon, I had a wonderful thought. Imagine, just imagine, if October of 2013, all this nonsense came to a screeching halt. I mean, done and done. ObamaCare was delayed by at least a year until ALL the bugs and unfairness could be worked out. Then the debt. After the 17th of October and the debt limit is not raised, Chicken Little should be taken out and mocked. For all of these many years, Chicken Little (who has been played by many different people) has told us if we don't raise the debt limit,  the full faith and credit of the United States will be destroyed. On the 18th, when the sun rises, the kids go to school, and most adults go to work, everything will be fine. We will have just entered a new era of responsibility which finally puts and end to the tax and spend hangover from The New Deal.

We (collectively) have been acting like morons for decades now. Both sides of the aisle. Spend, spend, spend. Tax fewer people, spend more money, and tax the shrinking group of taxpayers at even higher rates. This has been utter insanity. It is unsustainable. Many of the Left will not be satisfied until we tax the top 1%, 100% of their income. That would be fair. Spread the wealth. Well, most grownups know that our country became rich and prosperous by acting just the opposite. Chase your dreams. Make as much money as you want or can. Spend your money the way you want to. It was referred to as the American Dream.

So here we are in October of 2013. Standing on a hill worth dying for. Like junkies who have been addicted for years, we need to take the needle out of our arm and start acting like Americans once again. No more debt. Live within our means. We have always been a rich and generous people - we will continue to be so. However, until we take the "junk" (debt) out of our arm, we cannot continue to be either. We will soon become a poor, debtor nation with most of our budget going into servicing our gargantuan debt. Our generosity will suffer, as there will be nothing more to give.

We have had skirmishes on this issue many times with both sides agreeing at the last minute to go back to the status quo. Lets just kick the can down the street, and we will get to it later. The problem is, we never do until the next debt crisis arrives. Then we do the "stork dance" all over again, and again, and again.

As much vitriol as I have heard leveled against the Tea Party by the Washington elite, they are the true patriots on this issue. They are shouting at the top of their lungs, "NO- this is not alright!". They hold both parties responsible and accountable to fix it. Without the Tea Party, the sand we are stuck in would soon turn to quicksand. 

As Americans, as patriots, we need to rally to the cause. THIS IS THE HILL WORTH DYING FOR! We owe it to so many - past, present and future. We need to stand tall and be counted - we need to be brave. The battle has been joined - not against each other, but against our stubborn addiction to debt.