Ummmm.....We're Broke.

For the last couple of days, we've been exposed to an endless stream of war propaganda in support of Chairman Obama's Syrian adventure. Without the slightest bit of mercy, we've been told ad nauseum that it's America's duty to keep the world safe for democracy, we have a responsibility protect, only America can do it, yadda, yadda, yadda by the likes of Bill Kristol, John Kerry, John McCain, and other leftist monsters. In complete defiance of the so-called Godwin Rule, I'd have to say that Joseph Goebbels would be quite envious of the effort of the political hacks trying to push the United States into a world war.


Before we continue, a little housekeeping is in order. I'm a hawk. I fully supported (and still do) the reasons why the United States went to war in Trashcanistan and Iraq. Both were questions of national security. (And let's face the cold, hard truth gang: They were the only things George W. Bush got right, regardless of what Tokyo Rove says.) I'm not a Paultard nor am I a Paleocon isolationist weirdo. I believe the United States has the right to do as it sees fit on the world stage when it comes to national defense and defending our actual allies. (Canada, Great Britain, Israel, and the like. Not death-dealing weasels like the inbreds that run Saudi Arabia, the Arab League, and the Muslim Brotherhood controlled Organization of Islamic Cooperation.)


Now, aside from the moral objection a sane, rational person might have about providing air cover for al-Qaeda's Islamonazi "freedom fighters", (which would obviously be the main reason for opposing this lunacy), we have to look another really big reason for screaming "One, two, three, four, we don't want your fucking war!": The economy of the United States is near collapse. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen called the national debt the gravest threat to national security that we face. We are currently $17 trillion in debt, with another $90 trillion in unpaid liabilities. In other words, you could take every penny the Koch brothers have, every drop of oil in the Middle East, every diamond out of South Africa, and every grain of rice grown in China and still not have enough to pay off the national debt. There simply isn't enough wealth on the planet to do that.


I know there are some who say that this is an utterly heartless view. On the contrary, it's a completely humanitarian view. My children should not be on the hook for this idiocy, nor should my grandchildren who are decades away from being born. They had nothing to do this, just as your children and grandchildren had nothing to do with this either. In addition to paying for the failure of Franklin Dictator Roosevelt's New Deal, Lyndon Bum Johnson's Not-So-Great Society, and our Dear Leader's varied scams from the so called Stimulus to Obamacareless, they'll have this on their shoulders, along with the previously mentioned George Bush's blunders like Medicare Part D. The faint chance that our children and grandchildren would have had to lead productive lives without being taxed to death by our ever expanding Federal Leviathan will be swept away for good, especially if this turns into long, protracted war. (Sort of like the ones we're involved in now that no one seems to want to talk about anymore.) When the economy collapses (and at the rate we're going, that will happen sooner rather than later), there will be misery that will make the Great Depression look like Sunday brunch at the Kennedy Compound.


Here's the bottom line, ladies and gentlemen: We're broke. Our so-called leaders, with less economic sense than a meth addict, have spent us into ruin. We can't afford to support a goldfish, let alone fight a civil war for al-Qaeda. We the People should do everything we possibly can to derail this monstrosity.


It's not about us anymore, it's about our children and our grandchildren. We have no right to inflict this on them.