Is the United States too big to Fail?

Our Government’s stature in the world is fast becoming a crumbling precipice of instability in the eyes of foreign governments. The US government is staring into the abyss of debt with trillions of time bombs that are ticking toward the end as we know it. With a few remaining breaths before financial collapse, our government is still trying to force another square entitlement peg into a round financial debt hole called Health Care Reform.

The American people’s acute awareness and common sense of a mortally wounded government is akin to wild animals innate awareness of impending doom. Taxpayers stampeded toward town halls, marched on Washington warning politicians about our country’s certain demise if our governments continues down this path of binge spending and fiscal irresponsibility.

Paul Revere warned the colonialists that the British were coming and the people took heed to his warning. Washington politicians said we know what is best for you.

The biggest problem Americans face today is the lack of attention that their Representatives seem to be showing toward them and their concerns. It seems we (American taxpayers) are the only ones who can feel and see the disaster coming and are being laughed at like those who laughed at Noah as he built his ark in the middle of a desert.

The troubled water is on both sides of the boat with a hole in the hull and no dry land in sight. The waves of debt are crashing higher and higher on the bow, and there is not a captain on deck who will steer this calamity away from the rocks.

Maybe it is too late, maybe we are on the rocks.

We have sailors (read politicians) who are more interested in allowing water into our sinking ship, rather than sealing the compartments of debt and battening down the hatches of entitlements. Some of these  sailors have even decided to call it quits rather than face the music, which they wrote. They see the writing on the wall that their ticket is going to be punched for good in November 2010.

The cancerous implications of overwhelming debt has engulfed this country, and is consuming a chunk of our future every day via debt payments. It is now beginning to make disastrous inroads on our country’s ability to function.

Being a social and financial conservative, it is especially upsetting to witness both parties allowing this to happen on their respective watch. Granted, the Democrats brought about the 2 largest ponzi schemes in the history of mankind known lovingly as Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965. These are 2 of 3 legs of the stool of financial disasters, the third being health care reform.

The Republicans tried to address the shortages social security would ultimately face but the Democrats said that Social Security is the 3rd rail in our country and it is not to be touched without great political consequences from the voters. So the cowards in both Houses of Congress ran the other way. It looks like the real third rail is the National debt. No one in Washington seems to want to address the ramifications of fixing it when they are the majority, and the minority raises hell about the debt and spending when they are out of power.

Health Care Reform legislation if enacted will completely break America’s back.