Common Sense
Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 8:55 AM
I think that today's Founders Quote Daily from the Patriot Post should stand as an indictment to our generation…
“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”
-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Trillion dollar deficits? Our founders knew that saddling the next generation with debt was a bad thing. We've not only saddled the next generation with debt, but the generation following that one. The left has tried to make the founders irrelevant. They’ve all but excised them from our history, instead teaching multiculturalism and the evils of our nation, all the while ignoring this truly great evil.
The national debt now averages out to a million dollars for a family of four. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median family income in the United States currently stands at about $58,500 per year. Assuming an average working lifetime from 20 year of age to 65 years of age, that amounts to a bit more than a third of the lifetime income per family. With the nation running trillion dollar deficits for the foreseeable future, the national debt will only rise. With unemployment on the rise in our shrinking economy, the family income will only fall.
I have to ask. At the rate we’re going, how long will it be before the national debt (averaged out per family) exceeds the total lifetime income of the average American family? And what do you think the consequences of that will be? Our governors (i.e. our elected representatives and their masters the federal bureaucracy) have abandoned common sense. When will the American people pick it up?
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Always On Watch responded with:
 | I've pretty much despaired of Americans waking up until they are enslaved by taxes -- or well nigh enslaved. |
Angel responded with:
 | HAPPY FATHERS DAY !! |
Stanford Matthews responded with:
 | An indictment indeed, as much as I hate to say it. That most are still not engaged confirms the allegations. A lack of commitment to participate may be viewed by some as a lack of time given the hectic pace of modern life. To those I say, you are a zombie. And to those who are engaged, if it only means that they vote, their's is no better a solution than the zombie.
Perhaps this is all a forming crisis that will return the public in general to at least watchdog status if not the masters of elected reps and beauracrats. Enough grief will have them rise up. |
T F Stern responded with:
 | There is hope yet; only about 5 % of the total stimulus spending package has been spent. It is still possible to stop this insanity if we apply pressure, perhaps if we strangled a few in Washington that might be the right kind of pressure to apply. |
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