Back to Basics

When your golf swing is off, you go back to basics.
When your  batting swing is off, you go back to basics.
When your free throw is off, you go back to basics.
When you can't throw a baseball through the strike zone to save your life, you go back to basics.

No matter the sport, if something is off, to correct the problem, we revert to the basics.

The same is applicable to economics and politics. If something is not working, don't stand there and do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. You have to go back to the basics.
 
Treating symptoms doesn't solve anything, but merely postpones the inevitable. Rather than continuing down destructive political and economic fast tracks which historically have been proven never to work, except to make powerful regimes more powerful, it makes sense to revert to the scientific fundamentals of politics and economics--particularly the admonishment to stay out of debt!   

Raising the debt ceiling and increasing the amount of currency in circulation solves nothing but to postpone the inevitable. Even worse, it has a negative effect, making the existing currency worth less and clandestinely stripping the ignorant of their wealth without them being none the wiser.

How stupid America's leaders are to believe that they could spend our way out of debt; that they can gamble America's infrastructure and our children's freedom, by doubling down and hoping to be dealt a winning hand, when we have no chance of winning.  Our industrial and manufacturing base is gone, having been shipped to countries with business friendly governments.  We must come to terms that we are a debtor, consumer driven nation, with no means to bail us out--save agriculture.  Gambling the farm is treason against the people, as it is simply not within the power of the government to do.

Who is paying politicians to think that America needs laws to control a free economy?  America's so-called "leaders,"  apparently drunk with power and the prestige of position, or under the duress of threats against them and their family, are  moving recklessly down a dead end road knowing full well of the cliff ahead, but are taking on the cowardly "not on my watch" approach, being either too blind, afraid or stupid to stop the train.

America's legal structure has become so rigid and so complex that there is no wiggle room.  Afraid of personal liability, we no longer let common sense guide our actions. We duck for cover behind lawyers, government's priests.  Politicians hide behind the law, spouting the mantra, "its not my job," or "someone else will do it."  The People hide behind the law as an excuse to act, or not to act, more concerned about the repercussions of how what they say or do might effect their career, or cause them to lose business or look bad in the eyes of their peers.

And what of We, the People? There is plenty of complaining going around, but how many of us have attended a meeting of the city council or board of commissioner, to demand why the laws on the books are not being enforced against illegal immigration?  How many of us have gone to House or Senate committee meetings in Denver to speak for or against a proposed Bill? Turn off the TV and get it done.

If We, the People, in whom sovereignty resides, do not get it done, if we do not hold government agents accountable, who does?  The same people who are doing it now:  lobbyists,  corporations and special Interest groups!  The government is not looking after the interests of the people, because the government is not under the people's control!  While we were sleeping, the dark side took advantage of us.  We are now waking up in the middle of a nightmare and we can barely believe our eyes.

The pain you are feeling is real and is not going away.  America is crumbling!  Get past the denial, work through the anger, and find acceptance of how dyer the circumstances actually are. Then do something, anything!  Find a niche and fill it.  Work with others to regain control. Gulliver is now awake, but will he lie there in angry denial and whine and moan about how unfair it was to have been tied down, or will he simply throw off the Lilliputian ropes, stand up and get to work?

Its not over till its over.