The very fact that this title has an excuse to be written about any city in the USA should make every citizen of our nation scared, sad, and righteously indignant.
How the HELL was this allowed for even one second in the first place?
I thought NY was bad enough with their old gun control laws. Between the new ones and this, I am just beside myself. WTF man.. WTF?????
Its a sign of the deterioration. The situation is actually pretty grim.
Some "big picture" examples: (Reader note: don't read these just before bedtime. If you do, I'm not responsible for your lost sleep.)
We have a senate that hasn't passed a budget in two years. Doesn't sound so bad. Easy to point fingers at Harry Reid. But, evaluate it against how things should be running in a smooth and correctly operating government--its really, really bad. Who in their right mind thinks its OK to operate the government (or any busines or family checkbook) without a budget? This is a huge red flag that government spending is not even close to being under control. Its also a huge red flag about the mentality of those responsible regarding what they think they can get away with and their regard for the constitution. Their political careers and holding onto power are more important than responsibly operating the government for the rest of us. Just go back and read up on the last ten years of the Roman Republic and how those politicians ignored the Roman constitution--this is the period just before Rome slid into the tyranny of the emporers.
The fedgov is functionally bankrupt. Thus the massive deficits (more spent than income). And, nobody is doing anything about it! All the howling and fearmongering about the so-called sequesters is smoke and noise about a roughly 2% piece of government spending.
The Speaker of the House admitted congress doesn't read the bills before passing them. This is disastrous. The bills are written by lobbyists who are unaccountable to the voters. How skewed is this!?!
The fedgov was happy to institute the ruinous program called Obamacare despite the unpopularity. The Republicrats didn't vote for it, but neither did they get up and walk out like happens in the Knesset or Poland's parliament. And, many if not all state governments are going along with it.
The mere existence of DHS and TSA show totalitarianism is just around the corner. Writers were already using the term
soft tyranny three years ago. Just look at that word
homeland. Goebbels would have promoted the propagandist who invented that word.
A few years ago we actually had some so-called leaders using the term
jobless recovery to describe the hoped-for reversion from the biggest economic disaster since 1929. There are no adjectives to describe the callousness of pretending a recovery while millions remained out of work. This is the same bunch who yesterday were crowing about the stock market hitting new highs, as though indexes for a few dozen companies reflecting the activity of monied investors has much of anything to do with your unemployed neighbor who does odd jobs to feed his family.
The government has racked up some $55T (that's trillion with a
t.) in debts and obligations as of a year ago and the number is climbing. There is no possible interpretation of the necessary and proper clause or the general welfare clause that authorizes such massive indebtedness, nor the taxation that would be needed to pay it off. This is beyond disastrous. Even the military has said the national debt is a national security issue. And, they're more right than they might know. All it would take to really cause problems is a downgrade in USSA's credit rating. This is because a downgrade would mean higher interest rates for new debt. We're already spending billions on interest; raise the interest and suddenly the fedgov can only borrow less, while paying more to do it. And, we've got another fiscal cliff/debt ceiling coming in late March or early April.
If you really want to lose sleep, look into the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve (aka the Fed) and the federal debt. The Fed has been printing money out of thin air like mad since late 2008, and it hasn't caused a genuine resurgence. Meantime, the fedgov is now running spending over $1T a year, supported by massive borrowing. The whole game is completely unsustainable. It will collapse. There is no if, only when. Bernanke is doing everything he can to push the
when further into the future. Just do a little research into this, enough to grasp the full import and consequences. I guarantee you won't sleep for a week.
Its bad, folks.