BANKRUPTCY IS ONLY A NAME

If you think the following is ridiculous and easily dismissed, tell me where it is wrong.

Our Nation is in deep debt for one reason and one reason only; you have no desire to pay for the life style you want and enjoy. You whole-heartedly support politicians who sign Grover Norquist’s pledge. You voted for every politician who said he or she would cut taxes and look at where it has taken you. You voted for Reagan when he said he would cut taxes even after he told you that it was best to have all the money at the top. You voted for Bush who cut taxes while telling you the 1% were the job creators and followed him as he intentionally spent this country into ruin. You support Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who hate everything that has to do with the government—government is bad; it takes money for which you worked hard to get. You have successfully distorted the constitutional to read that you have a right to own a gun and then defended that right but do not know whom to shoot.  

Consider this, what if the United States, like Detroit, filed for bankruptcy because no one wants to pay taxes. Isn’t that just putting a name on where we are?

For over 250 years, even before we were a nation, we have paid taxes, built, and defended a huge publically owned infrastructure, which is now of incalculable value. A bankruptcy judge steps in, a single man such as a Scalia, Thomas, or Alito, and declares all contracts with the American people null and void, confiscates all government property we bought and paid for, and starts to sell off our assets to the highest bidder and uses the proceeds to pay our debts. All pensions fund reserves are paid to China and other bankers who hold our debt. National parks are sold to timber, mining, and oil companies. All right to water, natural gas, and oil are sold to multinational corporations. All works of arts are sold to private billionaires for pennies on the dollar. All public service unions are destroyed. All public assets are in the hands of private enterprise. The government now has no money; therefore, we have no government. There is no need to deregulate because there are no regulations. We have no social security program nor do we have Obamacare. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is defunded; if disaster strikes you are on your own; by the way, bankruptcy is a disaster. The Department of Education is gone and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ignored. All of this is extreme but isn’t that the direction we are heading with our 13 trillion dollar dept?

Bankruptcy could achieve in short order what the Republican Party has been trying to achieve for years. All assets are in the hands of a few rich people at the top. We have no effective government in Washington, which means we have the smallest government possible, which means the power is in the same hands of those who hold the assets. Labor is available, abundant, and cheap. There is no minimum wage. There is less and less public education so you do not have to pay to educate other peoples’ children; the only schools are private, the rich have built and maintain for their own children. Best of all, there is no or are near zero taxes on corporations and second best is that everyone has an “equal opportunity” to advance because up is the only road left to travel, even if that road is filled with potholes.     

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