The Winter of Our Discontent

“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”

 

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck 

Here we sit halfway through a brutal December as the New Year looms on the horizon. As encouraging as it is to know we have less than 90 days left of meteorological winter, and less than 60 days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training, we still have a butt load of cold, ugly winter left.

So I started thinking what was in the offing once we finished Christmas and started 2014. Here goes:

• With the passage of the two year "deal" (don't worry, the Senate will pass it also) we have "green lighted" the spendaholics to go wild once again. Print, borrow, spend - print, borrow, spend. Party on, Dude!
• President "Selfie" is getting ready to leave for 17 days in the Aloha State. Not to worry - we will hear again from the press that all Presidents need a vacation. The problem is this - while many Americans are hanging on for dear life, the royal family will be pampered in pink again, complements of you and me. 
• The plight of the hungry and homeless in our country continues to escalate. As much as we are trying to keep this blight on our society hidden, the problem is now busting at the seams. The Left will continue to blame the upper crust, as the sluggish economy continues to produce more victims.
• Similar to the 16 year old lad who had his parents "lawyer him up" after driving drunk and killing 4 innocents, the guilty involved in Benghazi, Fast and Furious, NSA, IRS and so on are going to "skate". The Left has provided a cocoon of protection around the Administration perps. Look for many of the scandals to die a quiet death in 2014.
• The best for last - ObamaCare. The hits just keep on coming. This weekend we found out the head of MNsure, a lady with many names, decided to go on a Caribbean vacation while the MNsure web portal was in distress. No biggie - in the real world, someone she would have been fired for that - but we are not in the real world. The Feds portal is still going down, people who signed up are finding out they still are uninsured and someone forgot to put the sub-routine in the program which allows monies to go to the insurance companies. After the first of the year, our little "shop of horrors" will really get scary.

Well, there it is in a nutshell. It is one thing to have the weather so brutal, it is quite another to have such a collection of hot messes going on in Washington. The ones in flyover country who pay the bills, marvel at the incompetency which permeates all levels of government. Soon, our debt will eclipse $20T and our once great nation will be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

I have said this before - instead of planning for tomorrow and living for today, our new motto should be "smoke them if you have them". In other words, spend your money now. Donate more, and spend more on goods and services for your family. Soon our money will be as useless as the people who are making it that way.