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How long are we as a people going to sit idly by while our government continues to spend money it doesn't have? How long before we as a people have the courage to stand up to the politicians and say, “enough is enough”?
The way our government spends money is no different than our own family budget. We are not able to spend money we don't have. Creditors who loan us money expect to be repaid. While we have the last resort of filing for bankruptcy, the US government does not have that option. How then can our government spend money it doesn't have? It doesn't matter whether it's the federal, state, or local government. The problem is still the same. Money going out must be less than money coming in. Income has to be more than expenditures. When the opposite is the case said government operates at a deficit. A little debt is not a bad thing, but the current debt of the federal government is more than $14 TRILLION!!! Call me crazy but I think this is just a little insane.
It would be real easy to blame the politicians for getting us in the mess, but the bottom line is we are all responsible. We elected the self-indulgent, cowards and at no point attempted to stop them from frivolously wasting our tax dollars. We stood by and allowed them to dig us into this hole and at no point questioned how we were paying for it all.
Politicians spend other people's money. So it's easy to understand why they don't bother considering where the money will come from to pay for the expenditure. We keep electing and re-electing them term after term. They pit you versus me each claiming that the other is the enemy when in fact they themselves are our true enemy. There's an old adage that says, “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Politicians don't have absolute power unless we give it to them. Through the election process we have the power to retake control of our government. The only question that remains is do we have the courage to do what is necessary?
