When I was a kid, I had this one piano teacher who employed a ruler when a wrong note sounded.
Play a "C" instead of a "B-flat" and CRACK! the knuckles got a smart rap with the ruler.
It was meant to be a firm reminder. It reminded me alright. I learned to memorize my music and avoid doing something that gave me bruised knuckles.
When training horses, people use a quirt or a whip to make a cracking noise to remind them that whatever action is being performed isn't up to standard.
I'm beginning to wonder if those same tools might not be effective in Washington, D.C.
I can't speak for everyone else because I am NOT everyone else, but around THIS house, we don't spend more than Hubby makes. We can't afford to do so. When the checkbook says 'NO', it means 'NO!!!!'. That doesn't hold true for D.C., who apparently work like Blondie from the Blondie and Dagwood cartoon where she thinks she isn't bankrupt because she still has checks.
No clue!! I realize that is supposed to be a funny 'blonde moment', but the nation isn't laughing at the "blonde D.C." anymore. We ARE broke. Michael Moore and Hollyweird can't change that by spouting off useless rhetoric. We have bankrolled programs, nations and aid that are miring us further and further into debt we cannot hope to pay off even if we take every dime on the planet.
It's time for some painful adjustments by everyone concerned, not just the "flyover part of the country". The middle class is being taxed out of existence and there are not enough "rich people" to pay the bills for even one year even if we tax them at 100%. The math just doesn't add up. Here is a WONDERFUL illustration to prove the point:
EAT THE RICH VIDEO
It's time we got some severe looking and severe acting piano teachers and "schoolmarms" who will employ that ruler or quirt to emphasize lessons that should have been learned in elementary school 'rithmatic.
Attempt some pass through pork? *SMACK* "We don't have the money for that, young man!!! Try again on those figures!"
Try to slip in a boondoggle? *WHAP* "We can't pay for that unsustainable program, young lady!! Better rework that checkbook balance!"
We could have a debt clock installed on each desk and podium in the building. Each hallway would have drop down signs showing the ever changing numbers of the debt piling up faster and faster as they in D.C. keep forgetting how to add and subtract.
Each day should begin with a prayer for guidance and the willingness of heart to not only receive the guidance but follow it in righteousness. Then the Pledge of Allegiance - no one who claims to represent our nation should be allowed to take one of the offices of this country and refuse to say the pledge as a badge of honor in their service to our country. No one. No matter how 'bright' they may claim to be, if you do not have an undying love for our nation, our freedoms, our liberty and the God who has granted us our bounteous blessings, it should disqualify you from service. And I don't care if that isn't politically correct.
I am sick of people telling everyone that God has no place in our nation. The reason we are in the mess we are in - politically, financially, and morally - is because we have told God "thanks, but no thanks, we don't need you". Then we have the national hubris to wonder why things once golden are turning quickly to crap.
When we have opened the meetings, the first thing that should happen is a roll call, just like in school. NO CREDIT FOR ATTENDANCE or PAYCHECK will be issued for those who are not there. PERIOD. You were not elected to play hookey.
Then, a sobering reminder of the nation's debt and financial obligations should be read each day along with the amount of interest that is being paid by current and future generations to guarantee that which is unsustainable and impractical.
This is the point where the severe folks with the rulers and quirts or whips come into play. Anytime someone brings forth another expensive bill, there should be some raps with the rulers.
Displays on a front screen showing Income and Expenses should ALWAYS be current just like in a check book balance where we show in real time just where the daily money is going and how much of a deposit due to tax revenue and other forms of actual income is going into the account.
No fuzzy math based upon projected income will be allowed.
Everything must be done based upon that days' forward balance and take into account every single penny which is owed to our creditors with the prime responsibility being that of paying off our indebtedness. That will mean unpleasant cuts in things that people have come to erroneously believe are "rights". Boo hoo.
In medical terms, when gangrene has set in, is it better to do some cuts and trim back the affliction and save the body or wait until the disease is so far spread that we lose the patient entirely?
We ARE at that point, people!!
It's time to realize that whatever we thought was in the checkbook simply isn't there. Time to learn to do more to take care of ourselves instead of hoping "the government" will do it for us.
Time to do more with much, much less.
And past time to learn to say "NO" and mean it even thought lots of people will be angry. Their anger is no reason to continue to spend ourselves into bankruptcy and financial bondage, yet that is what we are doing.
Crack the whip! The horses are trying to run in the wrong direction and they are destroying the entire wagon in the process... if we stop them now, repairs may yet be made to salvage both the wagon and its contents.
Otherwise, everything will go over the cliff and neither horses nor riders can be saved.
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