By Cranky Housewife -
It's just that, what difference does it make? Nothing ever changes anyway.
That one little statement is a major triumph of the Left's stubbornly unending fiscal melt downs, you know. Play it again, Uncle Sam. We're down to the wire. The Republicans are proving to be diplomatically inept against…the superior political intellect?...really?...of the Democrats once again. And all you can manage to think is, "Is it too much to ask that these Bozos just get it done without the drama so that I can enjoy my holidays? I mean, how much are we paying these guys anyway?"
Truth is, this little donkey and elephant show has been on permanent rerun since the Clinton Administration perfected it's War on Republicans during their own little fiscal cliff fiasco – you know, I've always thought that if the Democrats would work half as hard at actually solving the world's problems as they work to annihilate their political enemies and grab power, the country would be strong, well-educated and hunger-free in half a decade. But I supposed their wasted potential is quite beside the point.
The current economic bile that passes for political discourse would be a tragically tedious rehash under the best of circumstances, but how many times have we repeated this fiscal melodrama just this year? And it's almost New Year's Eve. How on earth are we supposed to keep caring about a crisis that's already been scripted to yield maximum economic pain for the producers of this nation and only waits for the clock to run out before that truth is revealed to an audience so overwrought by the absolute angst of it all?
You see? Sheer genius. The Democrats have completely perfected their technique of economic waterboarding. Only it's not enough not merely provoke a rousing chorus of:
It's just that, what difference does it make? Nothing ever changes anyway.
That's not the entire sentiment that our elected representatives are trying to evoke. What they need from you and me is the full symphony:
It's just that, what difference does it make? Nothing ever changes anyway. Just tax me and get it over with. It's not like I can do anything about it. I'll do anything you say. Just make it stop.
That's the requirement so that politicians may remain blameless as the United States of America willingly abandons its fiscal responsibility and its global reputation for leading edge accounting best practices once and for all.
But let's understand this one thing. We cannot fix the economic crises if we willfully refuse to obey the basic rules of bookkeeping and (unfortunately) that is where the Obama Administration really shines. On a global scale, we have entire governments that have abandoned those rudimentary philosophies and America is one of a handful of nations that continues to maintain business standards in a world that just doesn't care anymore. Right now, economic giants like China are sparring with the SEC over the wasted effort of preserving accounting principles and this is a financial catastrophe that will make Enron look like a bounced check because the battle between China and basic bookkeeping involves not just one of the big accounting firms but all of them – per the Wall Street Journal.
This is a very hardcore balkanization tactic because it involves the world's only universal language. Numbers. If we cannot agree on numbers then currency has no meaning and global trade collapses.
"They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withheld from them which they purpose to do." "Come, let us go down and confound their speech." And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, so that they would not be able to return to each other, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel "because God there confounded the language of all the Earth
How many particularly urbane and enlightened individuals have you recently encountered who are well beyond the need for the small-minded thinking of theology and who boldly scoff at the idea that there could ever have been a common patois that connects us all. The idea that language could be instantly confused so that people could no longer communicate with one another is worthy of contempt, I should say. So much mythological and metaphorical nonsense stored up in one very morally outdated book, that it's time to abandon it for secular humanism and rely on the acumen of Man.
But we are witnessing how easily the wisdom of Man can be seduced so as to forsake fiscal reason because it feels better to spend more than we have on bridges to nowhere and leave the bills for our grandchildren to pay. It's less demanding to create governmental entities that feast on the fruits of someone else's labor, exhaust those resources, exhaust more than those resources and then playfully change the laws of accounting or economics or gravity or physics or nature or what have you…whatever it takes to make it all seem normal. We are abandoning honest and very basic communication for liberal feel-goodisms and the materialism of living as if we are the last generation.
When the nation finally forsakes its economic responsibilities in favor of this true materialism as many other nations have, chaos will ensue and the world will not blame the truly guilty in this mess. They will point to free market capitalism as the symbol of that failure because America has traditionally been the economic engine that delivers prosperity.
But whether America fails to deliver prosperity or not, free market capitalism is not to blame here. Avarice, corruption and legislative mismanagement are.
It's just that, what difference does it make? Nothing ever changes anyway.
That's the statement that began this discussion today and sadly; we've got a problem on our hands because truer words were never spoken. The real issue is that things do not change unless we ourselves change and top down reform is clearly not the answer. Asking our representatives to end the chaos will produce no conversion because there is no force of will behind our request. If we truly want things to change then we must find another way.
In 2013, let the change begin with you and with me – not Barack Obama, not Dick Durbin, not Mike Madigan and not Rahm Emanuel. Forget them. They are not your saviors and they have no incentive to change anything since things are going so well for them right now. Instead, let us transform ourselves starting with the little things – the things that we can control. Let us take on the culture that led to the kind of lazy thinking that is producing our economic collapse. Let us hold firm in that change.
The political representatives of our nation will follow our lead because our government has always acted as an accurate barometer for the citizens' values, education and honestly just as all governments do. The leaders who fail us now do so because we fail ourselves, but they will adapt to new standards when we have resolved to set some for ourselves and our posterity at the grassroots level. Let 2013 be a year of big ideas in small places. Let this be the year when God's blessings of liberty return to our nation.
Happy New Year and God Bless America!
