I haven’t bothered to comment on the recent government shutdown/debt limit "crisis" because there was no need to. Why comment when the outcome was inevitable? There was never any question what would happen—the Republicans would cave and give the Democrats almost everything they wanted. That is simply the template that is operative in American history right now, and it doesn’t appear that it will change any time soon. The whole thing was a farce anyway; there was no way the government could possibly default on its loans. The United States government pays approximately $18 billion every month in interest on its debt; it takes in over $200 billion in tax revenue each month. How could it possibly default, unless it simply refused to write a check? So, once again, the major media and the Democrats lied to us, and the gutless Republicans were intimidated into giving in.
The people in Congress, and the national media—not to mention the current President of the United States—are utterly reprehensible. The United States government is destroying its own country with incompetence, immorality, and a lust for power—and the last is the key. There are simply things that government is incapable of effectively doing, but the bloated bureaucracy, the massive debt, irresponsible spending, and encouragement of moral degeneration all have one major effect—to center more power in the hands of government. It is a story told countless times in human history, to the ultimate devastation of the people. The Republicans—with the notable exception of great people like Ted Cruz, Mike Hill, Sarah Palin, and a few others—play the game, too. Brain-dead, senile old ninnies like John McCain and Mitch McConnell are worse than useless; they are pawns in the hands of Democratic tyrants who know how to control government and the media, and thus get the power they crave to rule, tax and spend, buy votes, and build their own selfish empire—all to the fracturing and ultimate disintegration of the country. As I have said countless times before, it is the very thing the American Founders ceaselessly warned against and tried to prevent, and sadly, without success. The majority of the American people just flat don’t care what happens in Washington, D.C. any more, as long as they get their food stamps and welfare checks. This is what America has become. A country is no greater than her people, a huge number of American people now are gutter garbage, and Washington, D.C., loves to have it so. A remnant of decency remains, and it is the only thing that gives America any strength at all, but it is getting smaller and smaller, and increasingly irrelevant. Just exactly what Obama, the media, the Democratic Party, and the entire Washington establish wants. And the masses, educated in the foppish American public school system, haven't a clue what is happening.
There is no way to stop it; well, there is, but it’s too far gone now to do so. "Her wounds are incurable," God said of the people of Israel 2700 years ago (Micah 1:9); there comes a point where healing becomes impossible. No one knows the future, of course, except God, but even non-Christian philosophers understood this point: "Study the past if you would define the future." (Confucius) The lust for power is blinding America’s "leaders". Individual excellence can only be had by self-control. Plato said the greatest victory a man can have is to conquer himself. Very few people in history have the ability to control whatever temptation overwhelms them; that’s why virtue and excellence must continually, unendingly, be put before them as the proper examples of how to live. Virtue and Excellence do not need government, which is exactly why the Democratic Party is the direct antithesis of everything good, wholesome, uplifting, decent, and moral. The Founders of America understood the importance of a virtuous citizenship and government, but also how difficult it is to achieve, especially in the latter. That is a major reason they didn’t want to give anybody in government very much power—power destroys human character. There is certainly absolutely no evidence that such ability--self-control--exists, except in very few cases, in Washington, D. C. today. And Democracy, in its folly, has given such people excessive authority over the nation.
The next thing these fools are going to do is give citizenship to millions of people who are breaking America’s laws. Habla usted Espanol? If you are under 30, you’d better learn.