Is the sky really falling?

Senator Rand Paul hit the nail on the head recently by calling for "calling the bluff" on a lot of this nonsense with sequestration. First, let's get the details straight. Enough of the finger pointing on who started what, how we got here, why we are not getting out etc. etc. Every single family sitting around their kitchen tables putting together their monthly budgets (assuming people still do this), absolutely understand how disgusting our government has become at managing our finances. You would, and frankly could NEVER run your own budget in the same fashion. Having said that, this ordeal was put into place by the administration, from Jack Lew, and his words to Senator Reid (paraphrasing) were; this is great and will force these guys (talking about republicans) to compromise, they will have to go along. Reid then put his head in his hands and in between his knees and explained to Lew that he just kicked his staff out of his office the past week for suggesting the same exact thing, then told Lew it was crazy! Bottom line; they actually did bring it to the floor and they voted on it. Republicans voted on it too, but in their naive defense, did so with the thought that hey, at least now we can get some spending cuts done. Foolish them, they should have known that this was all a gotcha game for the administration, and the end state for them was to blame anything negative on them and then play on the fears of the American people. So there were some good intended people involved, and there were also some disgusting people involved. You decide who you think had the ridiculous self-interest motive for yourself.

Secondly, now that we are here let's really discuss what is about to happen. A ten year spending slow plan? Are you freaking serious? Seriously! Imagine you are at your house working through your budget. You see that you have 50K in credit card debt, a 200K dollar mortgage and about 25K or so in other debt. You make 50K a year. YOU ARE DROWNING!!!!!!!!! Would you think to yourself....self, I can keep spending the same amounts of money just not as often? If so you are an idiot, and you should run for office or president, because that is exactly what these morons think. Your hole (debt) is much larger than your shovel (income) and unless you are willing to go out and get a bigger shovel, a second or third shovel AT THE SAME TIME that you STOP spending on certain things, you are forever going to be in this mess. Period, end of statement, you cannot argue it any which way you try. Unless of course you say.....what if I just go over to my neighbor's house and steal their shovel, or at least force them to come over and use their shovel to help me dig out of my hole, but make them understand that I am going to keep digging the hole while they help with their shovel to get me out? Again, if you agree with this logic you should absolutely run for congress or president.

Lastly, I am not going to shy away from the fact that the government needs to be trimmed of fat....lard to be exact. Where to do it is the bigger argument obviously. Defense? Sure, but how much do you want to cut when there are more threats today than yesterday? And save the "if Bush wouldn't have started it crap." You didn't have an issue with Clinton and Kosovo so shut it.

Entitlements consume the second largest portion of the budget, and no doubt this administration has allowed....ALLOWED it to go even deeper. The 47% comment from Romney? He was "100%" correct when he said it, at least a good portion of it anyhow. There are in fact roughly 47% of Americans living on some type of dependency, you cannot argue that. How they vote however, that is debatable. I don't have the specifics, but living in the metro-Detroit area I can tell you that nearly every one of those 47% here are voting liberally, no doubt. Those figures obviously change in the south, I don't doubt that.

At the end of the day, where do we go from here? Are we going to start electing officials that actually go and cut spending, all spending, even though it hurts? And are we going to start calling the bluff of these idiots who are playing on all of our fears with this "sky is falling" crap? Especially when the carni barkers that started the plan in the first place are the biggest morons of them all?

IS the sky falling? Or have you just now figured out that no matter who is in office and no matter what they promise or don't promise, you are the one that controls your own life, so get over it already? Go get a freaking job and start being a productive citizen.