Fear Mongering 101
Deborah Venable
07/24/11
First,
there was the “glass ceiling” that good old Hillary couldn’t quite break
through. Now, there’s the “debt
ceiling” that good old Barack wants jacked up before he can break through. (Funny, since he’s wanted to “cap”
practically everything else that has to do with energy or expanding the
economy.) At the same time he also
wants to jack up taxes on the rich, of course, (no ceiling on that one) and
pull out, (or cap) military spending on Bush’s wars, i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan,
while expanding into other interesting places to bomb in the Middle East, i.e.
Libya etc.
Let’s
see, we have to keep raising the ceiling on the minimum wage, capping the
Social Security C.O.L. raises, hands off union worker entitlements, expand
Medicaid, but cap Medicare benefits, grow government and continue to cap
individual liberties wherever we can.
While doing all of this, Democrats have the audacity to accuse
Republicans of shoving grandma off a cliff in a wheelchair??? Uh oh, did the poor old dear not get her
pain pill first?
Perhaps
most appalling of all is that government hatched plan to deliberately send
American firearms into the hands of Mexican criminals while bitching like hell
about American citizens having too much access to legal firearms! (Forgive the language, folks, but nothing
quite describes it like that.)
Getting
back to the debt ceiling debate – every time Obama or any of the Democrats seek
out a microphone, (which is multiple times daily) they take the occasion to
tell the American people, who are saying in majority numbers, “hold the debt
ceiling!” that they are too stupid to realize just what that means. Why, according to them, that means Social
Security checks won’t go out! Children
will have to languish in ignorance, (while starving to death without school
breakfast, lunch, and dinner) grandma won’t get her Medicare pain pill, and the
whole government will default on its loans!
Our money will be worthless! Oh,
and our military guys and gals won’t get paid!
Cops and Firemen too! And forget
about visiting any National parks!
Wait
for it . . . wait for it . . . FEAR MONGERING 101!
Here’s
what they don’t want you to know. If
these things really did happen, it would be because something ELSE was
PRIORITIZED above them by THEM!
If
the debt ceiling is reached and the government actually has to start living
within its means, that does not mean that the revenue stream into the
government stops. Hint: If you max out
your credit cards, it does not mean that you don’t get a paycheck if you still
have a job! One thing has nothing to do
with the other.
The
dirty little secret is that Social Security and Medicare should be untouchable,
(remember the “lock box”?) They still
have some ‘splainin’ to do on that one, huh?
Nobody ever has really, even though all us “stupid folk” know that the
lock got picked a long time ago. So now
it would be nice for these folks in power to come right out and tell all the
young ‘uns where their mandated withholdings for these things are actually
going! Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
It
seems Barack’s “hike the debt ceiling or else” statements get harder to take
every time he seeks a microphone – more condescending, more dishonest, (if
that’s even possible at this point) and far more desperate! Why do Republicans even continue to rush
over to the White House to hear him out??
Not only are the American people too stupid (read that “busy” in his
words) to keep an eye on what government is doing, but we need to just “eat our
peas” like good little boys and girls and “yank off the band aide!” Hey, Barry, some of us out here actually
LIKE peas! We just refuse to have them
or anything else shoved down our throats.
And band aides won’t heal all the wounds that YOU have caused anyway!
Now,
I’m going to engage in a little fear mongering of my own. I have recently noticed an abrupt change in
the way Barry and the Democrats in general are being received by the American
people. I don’t think it is wishful
thinking on my part. The numbers,
(percentages if you will) of people that seemed to be duped by the policies put
forth by this bunch are shrinking!
While the diehard idiots are still out there, especially in the media,
they are being surrounded by clearer thinking individuals that know something
is wrong. Too bad that too few of those
clearer thinking individuals actually have posts in the fourth estate where
they could do a lot of good, although we have to hope that more and more of
those irreplaceable, (they think) individuals with their oh-so-valuable
journalism degrees clutched in their hands or hung on their walls will actually
someday wake up and tell things like they are.
Most
of the “smarter than thous” agree that the debt ceiling will and must be
raised. Not a single one of these
individuals can adequately explain why, but they just look at you like you are
stupid if you don’t believe it.
So,
as we push toward the goal post, (that seems to keep moving until now) of going
over that magical date when America defaults on her debts and fails to pay
military and retirees, I have to wonder what’s going on behind all those closed
doors on The Hill and just how much it is costing the American people. (You don’t think all those guys and gals are
in all those meetings without any fancy sustenance do you?) Every proposed “deal” they’ll come up with
is just so much more wasted time and money, but that is the politics of getting
the job done in today’s upside down world.
It
won’t last. The breaking point will be
reached eventually. Yummy! Peas anyone?