You have a certain debt. You may have thought you knew about the debt. You were most likely wrong. Your personal portion of the debt: $186,667
Are you surprised? Did you honestly think that the current $10 TRILLION dollar national debt was the only government debt we had? Well, you should probably check your figures, because it is closer to $53 TRILLION as of the end of the last fiscal year. That was the sum of our country's public debt, accrued civilian and military retirement benefits, unfunded but promised Social Security and Medicare benefits, and other financial obligations. And that number was as of about a year ago. By now it is probably closer to $56 TRILLION!!
Can we even wrap our heads around how big that is? If you had to give someone a $1 bill every second (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) until you gave them $56 trillion, it would take you 1,775,748 YEARS to give them that much money. By the time you are done, you have enough dollar bills to stack them (flat, like a regular stack of bills) up from the ground to the surface of the moon more than 16 times! And they would weigh (on earth) almost 62 million tons, which is about the same as 637 fully-loaded modern (Nimitz class) US aircraft carriers. Getting a better picture of how big this number is now?
Your portion of that debt (equal for every man, woman, and child in this country): $186,667
Have a family of 4? Congratulations! Your family owes close to $750,000! What an exciting thought!
Yeah... we're in trouble.
The fact of the matter is that we are going to have to pay the piper sometime. As much as we would like it to, debt will not just go away. At least not without massive war and bloodshed. No, it will not go away. We will have to pay the piper every penny, with interest. All of us will. We must get our country's fiscal irresponsibility under control, and we must do it now. Our country is moving towards communism faster than most of us realize or would like to think. Just think how different we are from that bright time not so long ago when our founding fathers liberated us from such government oppression. Oh, how far we have come from those times.
In the last 5 years I have come to the full realization that the more we are in debt as a nation, and the more services we provide for people, the more we give up our personal liberties to do so. We are brainwashed into believing that we must choose 1 of 2 political parties, and that they are vastly different. But in reality, both of those political parties are very similar. Just 2 sides of the same coin.
I have seen enough to know that as a fiscal and social conservative, voting for anyone in either of those parties is just a vote to slide further into socialism and debt. While no political party can ever match a person's beliefs exactly, the two major parties aren't even close to mine. And honestly, I don't think they are the closest match for most people who vote for them. But we have this desire to fit in with the crowd, to be a winner, to vote for a winner. And so we stay with 2 parties, most of us do. It is like the movie "The Matrix" except that instead of being used to power machines, We The People are being used to power other power-hungry people.
I choose to unplug myself from "The Matrix" and to do the hard work necessary to find the political party that most closely matches my actual opinions. And for me, that is the Constitution Party. Their views center around a return to the limited government instituted by the US Constitution, around family values, and fiscal responsibility. I would be willing to bet that in a blind test, if asked to choose between what the Republican party actually does, and what the Constitution party espouses and does, that most of the registered republicans I know would actually choose the Constitution Party viewpoint.
So in the end, I'm going to stick with the only people willing to bring us back to the limited and controlled government that we started out with. I'm voting Constitution Party.
Are you surprised? Did you honestly think that the current $10 TRILLION dollar national debt was the only government debt we had? Well, you should probably check your figures, because it is closer to $53 TRILLION as of the end of the last fiscal year. That was the sum of our country's public debt, accrued civilian and military retirement benefits, unfunded but promised Social Security and Medicare benefits, and other financial obligations. And that number was as of about a year ago. By now it is probably closer to $56 TRILLION!!
Can we even wrap our heads around how big that is? If you had to give someone a $1 bill every second (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) until you gave them $56 trillion, it would take you 1,775,748 YEARS to give them that much money. By the time you are done, you have enough dollar bills to stack them (flat, like a regular stack of bills) up from the ground to the surface of the moon more than 16 times! And they would weigh (on earth) almost 62 million tons, which is about the same as 637 fully-loaded modern (Nimitz class) US aircraft carriers. Getting a better picture of how big this number is now?Your portion of that debt (equal for every man, woman, and child in this country): $186,667
Have a family of 4? Congratulations! Your family owes close to $750,000! What an exciting thought!
Yeah... we're in trouble.
The fact of the matter is that we are going to have to pay the piper sometime. As much as we would like it to, debt will not just go away. At least not without massive war and bloodshed. No, it will not go away. We will have to pay the piper every penny, with interest. All of us will. We must get our country's fiscal irresponsibility under control, and we must do it now. Our country is moving towards communism faster than most of us realize or would like to think. Just think how different we are from that bright time not so long ago when our founding fathers liberated us from such government oppression. Oh, how far we have come from those times.In the last 5 years I have come to the full realization that the more we are in debt as a nation, and the more services we provide for people, the more we give up our personal liberties to do so. We are brainwashed into believing that we must choose 1 of 2 political parties, and that they are vastly different. But in reality, both of those political parties are very similar. Just 2 sides of the same coin.
I have seen enough to know that as a fiscal and social conservative, voting for anyone in either of those parties is just a vote to slide further into socialism and debt. While no political party can ever match a person's beliefs exactly, the two major parties aren't even close to mine. And honestly, I don't think they are the closest match for most people who vote for them. But we have this desire to fit in with the crowd, to be a winner, to vote for a winner. And so we stay with 2 parties, most of us do. It is like the movie "The Matrix" except that instead of being used to power machines, We The People are being used to power other power-hungry people.
I choose to unplug myself from "The Matrix" and to do the hard work necessary to find the political party that most closely matches my actual opinions. And for me, that is the Constitution Party. Their views center around a return to the limited government instituted by the US Constitution, around family values, and fiscal responsibility. I would be willing to bet that in a blind test, if asked to choose between what the Republican party actually does, and what the Constitution party espouses and does, that most of the registered republicans I know would actually choose the Constitution Party viewpoint.So in the end, I'm going to stick with the only people willing to bring us back to the limited and controlled government that we started out with. I'm voting Constitution Party.
