John Ben Regesh, J. D.

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10/16/09  Selling Your Children into Slavery

Over the last year we have watched our Politicians, both Democrat and Republican do things that we as a people know they should never do. When the Bailout came a year ago, we watched a Republican President sign off on a 787 Billion dollar bill which the people wrote and called and pleaded with their representatives not to pass. Congress this past Spring passed a bill which they referred to as "Cap and Trade" which taxes energy. Now they are going to pass a healthcare reform bill whose price will be in the Trillion dollar range. Again, they are not listening to us. They are not even able to read the bill because the "leadership" will only give them a scant day or three to read it.  

The cost of all this madness is estimated to expand the national debt to more than TEN TRILLION DOLLARS. The interest alone will absorb a good part of everything our citizens will earn. This means that they will have less of the money to defend themselves, to stimulate their economy, to pay for their own healthcare, and to have a future of any kind. 

In fact, they will have to pay the debt because bankruptcy is not available to a country. While they may not be in chains, they will be bound by debt instruments and taxes to pay a debt they did not incur.  Your children and grandchildren and their children will be in debt for generations paying off the reckless spending that is going on now in Washington - by both parties; by the liberals and the conservatives. 

We have seen the government of the United States transfer wealth from the working class to the poor over the last 80 years through government programs. Now they have come up with robbing one generation to give money to this generation. And alas, there is no one to speak for our children, our grandchildren, or our great grandchildren.

A friend forwarded an e-mail suggesting that we vote them all out of office.  I wrote him back and said, that can't and won't happen, because it is the people who voted them in. For instance the people in Pelosi's district think she is doing a wondrous job and would vote her in again. The people in Northern Ohio keep re-electing Kucinich who is very far left. I explained that the voters who support them would vote someone in of the same ilk if these people dropped dead of a heart attach or retired. It is because while these people profess to be for equality and taking care of people they bereft of any feelings toward the people who will have to pay for their generosity. They are in fact ignorantly immoral. They are stealing from people who are not yet born and selling them into slavery.

Ayn Rand wrote Atlas shrugged where productive people dropped out of society and formed a new utopia where they could live without the parasites that hung on them; and I say to you, that if you value your children and grandchildren's future, you may wish to look for a country with leaders who are more fiscally responsible. I know that immigrating to another country is hard, but your ancestors did it for themselves and their descendents and I would suggest that you at least entertain the thought.

 

© John Ben Regesh 2009