After watching the program and sitting at my desk thinking of what to talk about today, my thoughts again went back to this very disturbing TV show and a thought occurred to me. Every American is living their own 600lb life through the US budget and the US debt and we in this case are not to blame for the over spending that is causing the bloating of our governmental system, at least not completely. Our national budget is morbidly obese and spending is so out of control that balancing said budget seems out of control to those sent to our capital to do just that. Yet the same people require the people themselves to balance their personal budgets and pay and exorbitant amount of taxes not to pay off debt but to start new programs, which is no different than that person on the show who over eats and expects to lose weight and then is disappointed when they don’t.
Isn’t it time that our government undergo some stomach stapling surgery itself and stop the landslide of our tax dollars from falling into this black hole that is so far into debt at the moment that it will take multi-generations to dig ourselves out. It is now time to cut all non essential programs and build a fair tax program that allows the country to grow and create more taxes. Interestingly enough there have been flat tax ideas ( I favor those) and fair tax ideas that have never been discussed by Congress.
Isn’t it time our government left all these erroneous departments behind and shaved the budget in proper places like the department of education that has never succeeded at helping educate our children ever and leave the Military alone, which we seem to need as more and more radical ideas seem to become the norm around the world. Do we need fourteen intelligence agencies, several national police agencies? Does every county in every state need several school boards with paid members? The reality is we have built a bloated system that spends even after we no longer have money to spend and if a family were to do that there are serious consequences, why not when our government does the spending?
I as an American citizen am very tired of living this 600 lb life and want very much to shed all this extra spending. I as a person with a modicum of common sense understand that programs will be cut and I have no problem with that as long as they are the programs that are redundant and unnecessary. I also understand restructuring will take place and rebuilding in many places such as Detroit and I say bring it on. It is time we did things right instead of looking at our government as something we can get something from. It is time we as Americans stand up and use our intelligence and our guts and our God given abilities to rebuild our nation and it is time for our government to get the hell out of the way and stop spending our children’s future.