The Elephant in the Room: $70 Trillion Debt

[deacon blues]

Bottom line is this: the Middle East, the secret Romney tape, Obama on Letterman, who's leading in the polls, who is more likable, who leads in the swing states, blah, blah, blah is all a sideshow. The real danger and the real concern is that the national debt is $16 trillion and when you add the real numbers and do real accounting, figuring in the liabilities the government has for SS and Medicare, the debt is more like $70 trillion.

We've probably gone past the point of no return.

The only hope I have is that with a change in the White House there is a chance that we can begin to right the ship if there is any chance left. We know for a fact that with Obama there is a ZERO CHANCE he will do anything to stop the bleeding. In spite of any reservations you may have about Romney, he is the only VIABLE candidate to stop this headlong fall into the abyss. A third party vote or staying home is helping to guarantee that Obama's economic ideology will take all the way down to the bottom of the sea.

Here's a parallel: we are on a cruise ship that has a gaping hole in it's bow and the ship is sinking and sinking fast. Obama the captain has told everyone everything is fine, that he knows how to stop the leak, just trust him. He orders free drinks and food for everyone. He tells the band to play another round of songs to keep everyone happy. He pits together a group of wise men to come up with some ideas to fix the leak. They have some really great suggestions, he listens and then does nothing. We have a short window to save the ship and thousands of lives. There's a guy named Mitt with an idea to plug the hole, but it's a guy we don't like, he was rude and crude on the voyage and we're reluctant to trust him. But the ship is taking on more and more water, and it becomes obvious that only Mitt has the chance to usurp the captain and take command of the ship. Oh there's a few other guys we like better that want to be captain, Newt, Ron, Rick and others, but they are all injured and don't have a chance at commandeering the ship. So we have this one chance and this one guy to give it a shot. Yet there are some folks who just love the captain so much, they just can't believe he's going to let the ship go down. He's got a nice smile, he walks around the ship back slapping and handing out tickets to free dinners at fancy restaurants and shows at various ports, his wife is pretty, his children are well behaved. Yet the ship is sinking. Still others, because they don't like Mitt, are encouraging folks to try to get one of these injured guys to lead the mutiny in spite of the fact that these men could never do it. They say, "well if we can't remove the captain this time, out of sheer principle, I will keep supporting this guy with broken legs and then the next time maybe we can get someone else to be captain. I will NEVER support Mitt being the captain. He's been too dishonest and corrupt for me tom ever support him." But of course there's not going to be a next time, 4 days from now the ship will be at the bottom of the sea, and we'll all be dead. So here we are. We have a chance, a small chance, a glimmer of hope that things may get turned around with this one guy. If we don't give him that chance we will never know if his ideas will work. We know what's going to happen with the current captain. Some of us warned everyone 4 days before that his captain experience was nil, that he had never even been more than a recreation director. But folks said, "he makes me feel hopeful for a nice vacation, let's make him captain." Now we have this sinking ship and he's doing nothing to plug the hole. Mitt may not inspire you, and younmay not like him, but come to find out he's actually plugged a few holes in his lifetime. Maybe justbmaybe he can plug this one. Yes his breath is bad, he has body odor, his clothes are dirty and smelly. But he has plugged holes. And if this one doesn't get plugged, we are doomed.