Obama to ask for debt limit hike.
Obviously this sieve spending to shore up a quick-fix house of cards is unsustainable. As the article states, our fearless leader’s “plan” is intended to keep this wasteful and incompetent government funded until 2013. Then what? Consider the big picture:
Bipartisan Intelligence commission issues congress and Obama reports stating biotechnology is the greatest threat we face, and are flatly ignored. US ask journalists to censor reports about a human re-engineered airborne H5N1. Virtually nothing has been done to provide our people even an opt-in for defense against these emerging hostile biotechnologies, and the public remains largely oblivious, with not a single major news organization giving fair treatment to this critical threat. DHS investing billions in airport screener pat-downs which offer little real protection against these technologies they are useless to detect, while arming small town police with military ordinance and conducting public training exercises on American soil.
I don’t like to sound like an alarmist, but one conclusion might be that we are simply planning on a “biotech 911″ (and the chaos that would inevitably ensue) due to neglect of building the secure, modular, distributive public housing networks that would offer (as an OPT-IN) concerned citizens any chance to survive as the rich will, and that the bulk of our efforts now are focused on damage control after the fact. How could this happen? How could we allow such a threat to go unaddressed, and such wealth and technology at our disposal to do so to remain in the wasteful grasp of unprecedented greed?
Because Americans allow it, being sold on the simplistic and outdated propaganda that “free lunch is bad,” a conditioned denial of a terrifying bigger picture, and because these wealthy refuse to give up the carrot of forced labor that public housing would liberate us from, even when they see what is coming enough to be taking steps to defend themselves, so they survive.
But pay no attention to all that, you should be out there begging for JOBS to make these traitors even MORE money! That biotech stuff will all work out somehow if we just ignore it long enough. Do we even know what this 15 TRILLION is being spent on? Did we forget a relevant DEFENSE is the primary reason we have a government? No confidence. Services not rendered. Yet the chorus from the blind: “We should just do away with more government!” As if we can grow solutions to these problems we ignore in our back yards!
As was said in the movie The Matrix, the only way we’ll get there (any future) is together. We cannot suffer the fools who would have us descend into anarchy to salve their paranoid lack of a better alternative. We must USE these tools, and that includes the resources of OUR OWN governments, to see that these necessary steps are taken, to offer all citizens a CHOICE to participate in some meaningful defense given the context of threat we face today.
The irony is, that by “re-tooling” our national defense strategy as our intelligence has suggested, along with several aspects of social welfare that remains outdated and unnecessarily bureaucratic, into a new standard, modular, distributed opt-in network of public housing and resource distribution, built secure (in light of biotech) and green-compliant (using primarily carbon composites, silicon, and renewable fuels), we would actually have SOMETHING to show for that spending, and the cost each subsequent year for these services would DECREASE as the infrastructure to mass produce continued to build up the new model.
Instead of thinking “we must tear it all down and rebuild from the ashes,” we should be thinking “start building NEW over here, separate from the old and the existing, and say to people, look, see, and come if you so choose.” We proposed the same strategy for withdrawal of our seemingly perpetual war obligations in the Middle East.
Yet there seems to be no middle ground. People are convinced entitlement programs are the problem, but it is the absence of a BETTER PLAN that is the real threat. Of course, “give a man a fish” spending is a poor model (though admittedly, it’s better than nothing), when you just have to spend that same money again next year because you haven’t actually built up anything. Just throwing our resources and our people into debt, so the wealthy and powerful can bankrupt nations pursuing wasteful strategy to fund necessary social programs, shifting blame to the poor and needy, and we the defenseless believe them!
We seem quick to point the finger, but I see few anywhere near the pulse.