There is always a mountain before the fiscal cliff.

     With so many self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives in our congress how did we accumulate a 16 trillion dollar debt and an insurmountable deficit? Where were these conservatives when the debt was being created and expanded and the deficit grew exponentially larger? Who holds the answers to get back on track to lowering and paying off the debt and lowering the deficit back to zero?

     During the last 20+ years our debt has climbed at an alarming rate and the deficit has turned into a real monster; but who is responsible for it democrats or republicans? Who holds the blame when they are both doing the same deeds and voting the same way, can you really put sole blame on either party or should we hold each accountable for their part? What happens when this so called cliff is reached is no real concern, it is the why we were allowed to climb the mountain to reach this cliff. The real issue that should be addressed is what we have learned from all of this. Have we learned to make cuts where we can, no not really, because one party wants spending  cuts and the other party wants higher taxation to compensate for outrageous spending and gifting of trillions of dollars to the worldwide nations.  So what is the answer? What we haven’t tried is to make the dollar worth more so that our debt pays off more at a time, cut the spending to only those things that are necessary for the nation to work right. What we haven’t tried to cut off all foreign aid to every nation until we get ourselves in better financial shape, what we should be doing is cutting off the paychecks of our politicians until they can get these things done and we get back on track.

      Who can steer us back in the right direction? I don’t think it can be done by one man or by one party. I believe it would take the combined effort of every one of our government workers, it would take a sound monetary policy being taught in our schools, and it would take the people of this nation to realize that the government’s debt is really our debt. We pay our taxes so that government can run (well that’s what they tell us) and what do they do with it, hit the casino and strip clubs, they blow our money on the temporary goods and bad investments, such as war and foreign aid. The only way to get back on track is to stop with this flawed belief that we can print our way out or that higher taxation of the people will do the trick either.

     So have we learned an important lesson in all of this? I surely hope so, I hope we as a people, as a citizenry, have learned to demand responsibility from our elected officials. I hope we have learned to monitor of national debt and even our state debt just as we would with our personal debt. But who am I kidding, our country leads in personal debt by citizens and we also lead in foreclosures and bankruptcy, so it all kind of makes sense if you think about it. Is it too late? Are we already over the cliff? Have we gone too far to turn back? Honestly I don’t know. What I do know is that either way we go we had better taken some notes because I see this happening again in the very near future. Sink or swim we are all going together. LIVE FREE