10/07/2013
Come Monday…Treason
“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of (or commentary about) websites,
movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle
my fancy at the time. Be assured that
these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett
song “Come Monday.” This is subject to
change, however. In fact, I would be
most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a
while. For rants promote change, and
change can be good—right? Therefore,
since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the
parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
This
should be a rant of epic proportions, but since I have been feeling especially
poorly the past couple of weeks, I do not have the strength to let loose with
much more than a whimper. In fact, even
my(?) voice in my head is speaking in rather subdued tones.
Anyway,
it was pointed out to me that one topic has been largely ignored as both sides
of our current federal budget woes cuss and fuss amongst themselves, which is
that any action that threatens our ability to pay our national debts is
treasonous (plain and simple). For the
only real difference between the American dollar and the Mexican peso right now
is how much confidence other nations still have in the United States of America
as a whole.
Okay,
I must admit that I probably don’t have a clue about what I am trying to convey
here, but it makes sense to me. For what
currency represents is a recognized amount of value between two parties in a
business transaction. In other words,
they are kinda like I.O.U.s, and back when the American dollar was based upon
the gold standard, having a dollar bill meant that you had a dollar’s worth of
gold stored somewhere. Now that
currencies are no longer based upon the gold standard, the implied value of an
American dollar is based upon the strength of the American economy, along with
the national political will to deal with everyone fairly, which would be to
have people in positions of power who are honestly trying to do the right
thing—even when it might cost us.
Yes,
lack of confidence in a government can cause a country to have to pay more in
interest for funds borrowed from other countries, but despite the nonsense continually
spewed by hardcore fiscal conservatives, that should not be of much concern to
us at this time. In fact, the vast
majority of our national debt is owed to ourselves through the issuing of
dollars by the Federal Reserve, and it is in regards to how much our dollar is
valued by others that we should be starting to become quite worried about.
Yeah,
there were about 10,000 points I just skipped over in a rather awkward manner,
but I think you should be getting it.
For with there no longer having to be a dollar’s worth of gold for every
paper dollar issued, the Federal Reserve can just print up a few trillion dollars
over the weekend to have on hand for the start of business, Monday morning. Now, if bankers in Germany or Britain decide
that it is not worth the paper that it was supposedly printed on…? Come to think of it, I wonder how much is on
business ledgers now that does not even have a paper dollar (or a metal coin)
to cover it?
Alas,
I keep hoping that I will be allowed to physically die before seeing the actual
demise of America. Yeah, it can be
argued that we have weathered stronger storms than this before, but the
character of our people has changed to where far too many really don’t care if
the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.
Oh, and then there are the millions who have never cared to know about
the baby to begin with.
If
you don’t believe me, just listen to volleys being launched by people we
elected to represent us in Congress (along with the rest of the D.C. ninnies,
of course). For the hardcore fiscal
conservatives really would rather see America crumble than let the liberals win
while the liberals keep wailing about something needing to be done to help
those in need without giving much thought at all about how it could be done the
right way, which would certainly take the fire out of the conservatives
rhetoric in the eyes of us stuck in the middle.
No,
I have not been told by our Heavenly Father that the demise of the United
States of America is imminent, but it has been made clear to me that we are
closer than ever before. For we now have two whole generations coming along without any sense of shame. You see, self-esteem does not allow for that, and our Heavenly Father is going to give us more of a taste of just how much is good about us apart from Him.
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