SHUT IT DOWN ~ Bob Lonsberry

SHUT IT DOWN
boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/06/11 | Bob Lonsberry
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:21:34 AM by shortstop
Shut it down.
If Obama and the Senate Democrats won't agree to enough cuts, shut it down.
The world won't end if the federal government takes a few days off.
And if it takes shutting down the gravy train to get the nation's attention, then let's do it. Let's remember that short-term inconvenience is nothing in the context of long-term survival.
And long-term survival is exactly what is at stake. The immoral imbalance of the federal budget threatens to destroy not just the American spirit, it threatens to destroy America.
That is not an exaggeration, that is not a figure of speech, it is a literal reality – a clear and present danger of excess. It threatens our economy, it threatens our security, it threatens our survival. History shows that no nation can long survive with this much debt and redistribution. The end of America as we know it is not science fiction, it is political probability – and not at some distant date, but within the near lifetimes of many now alive.
This is that important.
And while the president pretends that this is about politics, about gaining partisan advantage, as he leads us ever further into the post-patriotic world, his failed policies of borrow and spend were repudiated at the last election. We tried his way, the deficit exploded, the debt piled up, and the people said no.
And they will say no again next year.
In the doldrums of his Libyan war, in the week of the supposed shut down, while issues raged at home and abroad, he launched his re-election. He began asking for money and putting together organization. On the day he embraced Bush policies on trials at Guantanamo, he attacked Bush as the bogeyman of the right.
He's running for re-election.


The rest of us are trying to save the country.
And the Republicans in the House are on the right track. The voters in November were on the right track.
Cut, cut, cut.
Discretionary money today, entitlement money tomorrow.
We don't need it, we can't afford it, we will have to do without.
Whether Obama and the Left intend to bankrupt the United States, in some sort of socialist reshuffling of global wealth, or if it is a mere consequence of their efforts to buy and expand the dependent class, the result is the same. We literally totter on the edge of not only decline, but collapse.
More of the same merely speeds the day of disaster.
No matter how sad the story, no matter how complicit the press, no matter how teary the plea, the answer is, "No." We can't afford it.
It all has to be cut.
Start with the earmarks and the bureaucrats, then get the farm subsidies and the green-energy welfare. Cut, cut, cut.
And recognize that entitlements are the hill that must be captured. Unsustainable and soul-destroying, from individual welfare payouts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, nothing is sacred, nothing is off the table, everything needs to be cut.
To the bone.
They have bankrupted us not only financially, but morally.
The lack of individual and societal responsibility – the chip-on-the-shoulder greed of entitlement – have weakened and polluted the American spirit. Our very national character has been castrated and putrefied by the moral corruption that arises from eating your bread by the sweat of someone else's brow.
The hallmark of liberty – the possession of property – is made as naught by the modern slavery of redistributive taxation which has made the poor house the plantation house and the wage earner the slave in chains.
Tax chains.
Half the population pays the tax while half the populations skims the cream. In the name of progressivism we have penalized productivity and rewarded failure. The smallest percentage of top earners fund the lion's share of government programs. Instead of bearing equally the responsibility of citizenship, we have legislated theft and declared that certain citizens are entitled to support from the public treasury while other citizens must labor their entire lives to fill the public treasury.
The burden of tax robs the payer of his property and the receiver of his dignity. One loses his wealth, the other loses his self-respect, self-reliance and personal initiative. Together they are diminished by the government.
So covetously avaricious is this lust for money that it even redistributes the future. It borrows in the name of the people debts that could not be repaid by God. The budgets of the future will have no discretion, just the ever compounding interest of debt.
It doesn't add up.
To anything but destruction.
And today is the day to fight. This is the time, this is the place, this is the issue.
We must fight. Not for political supremacy, but for national survival.
If Obama and the Left can't realize that, they must be pushed aside, the Constitution must function and the Republic must be saved.
It's that big a deal.
And if shutting down the government for a few days is the opening salvo, then let the fight begin.
Shut it down.--
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