We all heard the expression “Too Big To Fail” used when explaining why the government felt the need to rob we the people in order to bail out wall street and major corporations rather than granting tax relief and offering incentives to “productive” business and other commercial enterprises that would create jobs, increase industry and actually improve the economy. But who is going to bail out the government with these trillions of dollars in new debts and an increasingly weak dollar and economic outlook?

The truth is that once again, the government is turning to the productive portion of society to pay for the vast majority of this fiasco. It may do you well to remember that the productive members of society are often called the working class … we the people … those of us who work and take care of our own needs and our own families. We are the ones who are asked to pay for this debacle … we who so many in the government claim they are trying to help.

I CALL BS!

The last figures I looked at agreed that the wealth does seem to be disproportionately distributed but is that a bad thing? Those people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others have vast amounts of personal wealth but how did they get it? How many people have they employed? How much have they contributed to the tax base that supports our bloated bureaucracy? Well if truth be told, they have personally contributed relatively little but not for the reason you may think.

Who pays for those jobs? Who pays the corporate taxes? Who pays for that CEO’s outrageous salary? Is it Microsoft the corporation? No! It is in fact, the end user or the consumer of Microsoft Goods who pays for all of those. If truth be told, it is ALREADY we the people who are paying their corporate tax. If you do not like it, you are more than welcome to buy an Apple or to use Open Source software such as Linux or Unix. You see, in this market, you the consumer … we the people … ultimately decide when a company fails or succeeds.

UNLESS!

Unless the end consumer is so un-informed or otherwise incapable of making up their own minds.

As long as the end user has the necessary knowledge at hand, there is no need for regulations as the consumer will make their voices heard with their wallets. If you do not like the company, do not support it and it will go out of business based on the needs, demands and wishes of the consumer … also known as the also known as the working class … also known as WE THE PEOPLE.

Are you so uninformed and incapable of helping yourself that you have to make it a lifetime career choice to be taken care of by the government?

If you are not, than please stand with us as Americans first and put aside the victim mentality for a while. (We have all seen that at play on all sides of the political spectrum so do not even think about passing that statement off as being divisive in ANY way!) If you are that utterly incapable of caring for yourself, than sadly my friend, there is nothing anybody can do to help you … and if you are a believer in Darwin, should evolution be allowed to take its course here?

For those of faith and with the means, helping others is always an option and if you want a hand up, I will be the first in line. If you want to sit on your fat lazy arse on my doorstep every day waiting with your hand out, you are in for a really long wait. What right does the government have to take from anybody to give to anyone who refuses to help themselves. If they are incapable of helping themselves, there are institutions for these people so let them go there! Why should they be legally entitled to the fruits and benefits of those who have and continue to put forth effort day in and day out? If they want help, they can get that now! If they want support, let them either earn it or marry a rich spouse. (like John (I was in) F’ing (Viet Nam) Kerry did)

There is no lack of information out there. There is a massive amount of ignorance and apathy on the part of the people however. If you want to know about something, learn about it. If you do not, do not expect me to help you only because I have. Make your voice heard with your wallet and let we the people decide who will succeed and who will fail. If they cannot run their own business I am definitely going to be reluctant to invest in their company to help them fail even more. Yet that is exactly what the government is doing with money that belongs to WE THE PEOPLE!

THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PRODUCE, CREATE OR HAVE ANY MONEY!

What they have is the power to redistribute our wealth as they see fit. What they have is the power to take from you and me and give it to someone else. Do you stop and give every bum on the street cash? When you are paying for dinner and you use a coupon, do you distribute that money you saved between all the people you took to dinner?

Of Course Not!

Why not? Is it because you are greedy? Many people would have you believe that but it is not necessarily true. What you had was the knowledge and the ability to take an existing set of circumstances and make it work out to your favor. That is called freedom. The government wishes to take that away from you though.

How?

If you dance on either of the two sides of the political party aisles you have heard people and their BS cries of Fascism, Nazism, socialism, communism and likely many more. More often than not these are based more on emotional rants than actual facts or relevant points but it does have a striking similarity to the relevance of the situation we are facing as a nation. While the problems that led us here are numerous and multi-faceted, the end result is going to be the same.

What is the one common ground for all of those “Isms” where accusations fly like nothing more than so much snow in a blizzard?

Whenever any of these programs have been tried in the past, they have effectively destroyed the middle class of their respective nations.

The last time I looked at any figures, it seems that about fifty-three percent of the nation was paying one-hundred percent of the income tax. Disregarding the sales taxes and other “hidden” “excise” taxes that we the people all pay, what does that say for our middle class? Moreover, what happens when more people are sucking on the social teat than are contributing to it? Can you say “Social Security” boys and girls? I thought you could! The nation as a whole will go bankrupt.

Throw in to that unpleasant scenario an increasingly depressed dollar, excessive national debts and other issues and the picture for America becomes even more bleak. What will happen when the corporations are all owned by the federal government? What will happen when only the major industries are all owned by the federal government? If you want the truth, you have to look at what has always historically happened in such cases.

Whenever government has instituted a takeover of the primary industries in an economy, the destruction of the working class and the middle class has ensued. A select few who are rich enough and with the proper political connections will be allowed to retain their wealth. The politicians, being the new “providers” will hold all the power, the wealth and the control while the former working class is forced into a state of poverty. Soon after the government takeover of private industry, there is no longer any incentive to produce so what happens then?

Do the nations stand idly by while all their people starve to death and the nation comes to a grinding halt? Nope! They put the people to work for their pittance and their crumbs in the way of social welfare programs. They will still tell you that they are looking out for the working class but such is not the case.

Those people that are currently working, producing and paying will be doing the same amount of work for much less. Those who are currently sucking on the social teat will now have to work to get their social “benefits” and those who refuse will be re-educated or otherwise removed from the societal prefecture.

Does that sound so far-fetched?

Does it sound like some crazy conspiracy theory? Perhaps it does. Still, look around you today and look at what is happening in our society. Do not rely on some government printed book but go back to the books written at the time and look at what has happened in October of 1917 or in 1933 or even during “the people’s revolution” of the forties. Every one of those “Isms” was started “for the good of the working class” and every one of them ended up with only two classes of society. Avoiding for the time being the atrocities that were committed against their own people, look at what has historically happened to those nations. Now look at America today and tell me what is different.

Is America too big to fail? Add in double-digit inflation, add in the coming recession and add in the new costs as government takes over the private industries and it gets even uglier. The feds already have the Interest Rate set to zero. It is not going to get any lower. The fed is printing up money as fast as it can go and even China and Japan are no longer buying American debts. Where do you think the picture goes from there? Federal Reserve printing presses are printing up new dollars as fast as they can. At this rate, we will long for the recession of the 1970s but unfortunately, it may be too to fix it this time.

Is America too big to fail? Apparently not … but while she has stumbled, she has not fallen yet. Either we come together and work together as Americans first or she will fall … and if she does, the aftermath is going to be an amazingly ugly reality for us all even if it is only a rude-awakening for some.

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