Who’s Responsible for the “Fiscal Cliff”: Most likely, you are
As the nation prepares to plunge over the “fiscal cliff” of 2013 with $16.3 trillion dollars in debt, and the promise of increased taxes on every American tax payer—not the moochers—the roughly 50% who do not pay taxes, but the actual tax payers who have their incomes taxed because they are productive; the finger-pointing begins as to who is at fault. Well dear reader, I will tell you who is at fault—and I’m happy to proclaim it as I have made my own internal arrangements to legally avoid my tax hikes. I will not stand for being robbed by the idiots who caused this mess. I will not work harder to slave for the bad decisions of the people who are at fault for the “fiscal cliff.” America is not a “good for one, good for all” kind of place. I am not “connected” to the fools of bad thought, and do not feel compelled to help those who are listed below with the mismanagement of their individual lives which has caused the current crises.
The people, who are at fault for the “fiscal cliff”— not necessarily in the order of importance, are those who are willing to pay for their food at McDonald’s with a credit card. It is the congressman who would rather play golf with the president, than to do the job he was elected for. It’s the President of the United States who believes more in socialism than capitalism. It’s the woman who puts her career in front of her family leaving the children emotionally bankrupt. It’s the father who would rather watch Monday Night Football at Hooters with his friends than to sit at a dinner table with his family. It’s the woman who is on her third husband in a decade, and on the man who just left his wife of twenty years for a 23-year-old girl younger than his own daughters. It’s the idiots who would rather spend their Friday evenings getting drunk than reading a book. It’s the welfare mother who just gave birth to her fourth child in 6 years by all different men so she can qualify for more government assistance. It’s the over-weight fool who has spent 35 years overeating to the point they can barely get up off a couch then expect someone else to cover their medical expenses as they are perpetually sick. It’s the teacher who lies to themselves that they are in the teaching profession to care for children when in reality it’s really for the money and the shopping sprees it affords them. It’s the lobbyist who would sell their country up the river in a heartbeat for a lap dance at Archibald’s on K-Street while their wives brag to their friends about what “great guys” their powerful—well connected husbands are. It’s the woman who turns a blind eye to her husband’s indiscretions in trade for diamond ear-rings on Christmas. It’s the woman who would rather work a job so she can get away from the pressure of being a mother then blame her child’s failures on a public school. It’s the man who sent his son to college on an athletic scholarship so that the boy can have a shot at professional athletics. It’s the gamblers who are still at the slot machines at a casino at 3:30 in the morning spending the last of their weekly paycheck waiting for the buffet to open for breakfast which they charge on a credit card because they’ve lost all their money. It’s the news reporter who slanted their stories to fill an ideology they inherited during journalism school; instead of using what their critical mind tells them is right. In short, the people most corrosive, most destructive, most diabolical and the most responsible for the “fiscal cliff” are those who blindly serve an institutional system in some fashion or another, and have strayed from individual responsibility. They are commanded by their social weaknesses instead of commanding their daily lives.
There are of course many more types of people who are responsible for the “fiscal cliff” and the moral bankruptcy that America is now in. But the above description paints the picture effectively. My view of those types is that they created their own problems, and it is not my responsibility to save them from their own stupidity with extra tax money—which is what additional taxes are really going to fund—more of the above behavior. The problem is, until the above issues are addressed, America will always have a debt problem because the root of the problem is greater than money. It is a rot of the human soul that the fools above seek to fill with material possession which skews all the raw data needed to solve the actual “fiscal cliff.” I realize that the best way to teach America the hard lesson it needs to straighten out the behavior above is to let them fall off the cliff, and to plummet to a painful crash. Only then might they listen the next time we come near a “cliff” of any kind. Maybe then they’ll listen when people of logic and reason tell them to be careful with their lives and treat every aspect of living as a precious moment worthy of great care. Because the debts of our society are a lot of little things that add up to trillions of dollars and the people who created that debt do not deserve to be a part of “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” Such disreputable characters are not worthy of the honor to call themselves Americans when all they have done to contribute to the nation is debt.
Don’t ask me to pay for their bad behavior—because I won’t do it. I realize that I just insulted most of the people reading this—but tough. A thousand fools does not trump the brilliance of a creative individual who lives on the side of goodness. Such is a problem of democracy and the demise of fools who seek to cover their folly by the good deeds of the few by force of the federal government and the armies of the destitute employed by their tyranny.
Rich Hoffman
