Help Me I'm Getting Old

When I was growing up everybody knew that the country was spending too much money. Politicians would talk about the deficit and people understood because there weren't fifteen credit cards in your wallet to take up the slack when you went to buy the latest technology. How about a one hundred dollar calculator for instance. We learned in school that America was rich and smart. We were exporting more than we were importing, the country was growing, there were reasons to feel secure.

Over time the snowball kept growing. The country went the wrong way with Jimmy Carter. Things were bad and everybody knew it. Then came Reagan, we had learned our lesson. Lower taxes combined with smaller government and less regulation would spur the economy. Then came Bush 1 and 2, the anti-communicators. With the Bushes the message became confused. Yea, lowering taxes was a good thing but when you really got into trouble you raised taxes and when free enterprise really got into trouble you resorted to drunken spending. When these strategies didnt work this became the conservative message. That message, conservatives are just like liberals except that they only care about big business and not the little guy.

We are all together in a wind up car speeding toward the precipice and the Democrats and the Republicans are winding the key tighter and tighter. We are hurtling toward the abyss faster and faster and I am getting older and older. There is only one thing that can save and that message is missing from the elected Republican leadership.

What is clear is that the direction of the country is WRONG WRONG WRONG. The feeling that all will be alright is gone. The sound coming from the people needs to be the loudest thing these politicians hear. Our message to Washington: Government does not have any resources of its own to provide bailouts, or security, or morality. We must get the government out of our lives before we no longer have the right to own property or to speak our minds. The time is short.