2008 Soap Box Archives

The Keystone Cops Are At it Again

For the last couple of months the bulk of this nation's interest has been centered on one issue, the economy.

The war in Iraq and almost everything else has been back-burnered as the media's latest feeding frenzy focuses on the unholy coalition between the greedy Wall Street big shots, the downright sloth of a once great banking industry and the total inefficiency of an out of control, inept bunch of power-hungry politicians who lack the will or the ability to deal with our fiscal problems before or after the crash.

Congress' standard answer to anything is to throw money at it and that's what they did this time, starting with a seven hundred billion plus dollar bailout of the banking bunch, in a basically fruitless effort to get the economic ship sailing again and in their usual impotence, started a never ending domino effect of American companies with their hands out wanting tax dollars as a reward for bad business practices and making products that nobody wants.

It doesn't take a degree in economics to figure out that a company who has more retirees than active workers on their payroll is not going to make it no matter how many Band-Aids the government tapes on.

I hate to say it, but in my humble opinion, we are going to see some huge old-line American companies either restructure or simply go out of business.

For decades we have sat back in America and let foreign interests move into our backyard and take away a large share of the American market share.

If you don't believe that, just look at the strides the Japanese car makers have made, the amount of products that are imported from China, the factories that have been moved just across the Mexican border and the millions of jobs that have been outsourced and the list goes on.

Our government has allowed millions of illegals into this country, and have allowed them to worm their way into our social services, thereby adding billions of dollars to the entitlement rolls.

Our economy is going South, in some cases literally, and the wimps on both sides of the aisle in Washington have no idea what to do about it and there's a very good reason for this, these people don't live in the real world.

They don't have to worry about the skyrocketing cost of healthcare or shrinking 401k plans. They live in a world of privilege and deference and many of them haven't had a real job in 30 years. How could they know what's going on in the streets of America? They live behind a wall of isolation and many of them know little besides what some lobbyist tells them.

It is a national insanity not to have term limits.

Our government is broke and on top of that it is in debt to the tune of trillions of dollars and much of that is foreign money. What is going to happen when these foreign investors start calling in their notes?

Is the most powerful and prosperous nation in the history of mankind going to forfeit?

The politicians are so concerned about our reputation among the nations. I wonder how our reputation will fare when we cheat other nations out of the good faith loans they let us have.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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