| | I woke up on this fine Saturday with an unexplained sense of angst and then I realized what was bothering me; it had been a full 8 hours since I'd last read some bit of journalism explaining to me all the many terrible things that were about to 'possibly' happen to us all as a consequence of the Catastrophe Known as Sequestration.
Apparently, my dream state was unencumbered by the 24/7 propaganda blast currently filling the nation.
See, when Eisenhower and JFK were spending about $100B in a nation of 180million, life was absolutely horrible in the nation. Economies flat on their back. No sense of national pride or mission. No Progress at all. Remember those days? Life was HORRIBLE. You should have seen the terrible pictures of Detroit and Appalachia. Nothing but stills and drunkards. That was years before MEDICARE and Johnson's Guns And Butter Party followed by Nixon's Me, Too Party. Today, after over half a century of Great Society Goodness, we can all be proud to say that we've turned stills into Meth labs, drunkards into crack addicts, and built a slew of million dollar plus Public Servant mansions in Northern Virginia.
So today, even the tiniest slide back from our present almost 4 trillion dollar a year tear would send this nation right off the cliff, away from this proud nation of inspired youth being sent out into vibrant economies, all thanks to the careful husbandry of the nations resources that characterizes what goes on every day inside the Beltway.
And that's my worry today-- that somehow, the nation won't get how important it is for us to keep building those imperial mansions in Northern Virginia. So please-- bring your latest stories of the terrible, terrible effects of reducing the rate of increase of federal debt fueled spending.
It's for the children.
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