For several days now, I have thought about a short piece to feature this week and have kept coming up empty. So…I will talk about being sick. I am sick of politics. I am sick of the Middle East turmoil. I am sick of Russia invading Ukraine. I am sick of Canada’s Prime Minister trying to turn his nation into an Anti-American wonderland. I am sick of affordability and all it entails…especially high prices for no apparent reasons. I am sick of the Right, the Left, and all of the Middle. I am sick of all the variations of Karens and their judgmental attitudes towards all things in culture and society. I am sick of NIL, the 24-team playoff, and the obsolescence of the student athlete. I am sick of virtue signaling in all of its various forms and devices. I am sick of the reluctance so many have of speaking truth and common sense for fear of criticism, loathing, or damnation. In short…the world around me is making me weary and there seems to be no reprieve in sight. And then I ran across this short article and it reminded me about two of the top things that I am sick of. Here is the article: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/elizabeth-warrens-condiment-consternation/ .
Senator Warren is from Massachusetts and likely reflects the attitudes of most folks she represents. She also epitomizes these two big gripes I have about our government. I do not mean the Democrat Government; nor do I mean the Republican Government. I mean our Government in general. The two failings I am talking about are both related to the loss of fiscal sanity. They would be number one: a pathetic and condemnable refusal to not only be honest and straightforward about government priorities…but to simply ignore the necessity of the premise altogether. My number two would be the now acceptable knee-jerk reaction of our Executive and Legislative branches to simply throw federal tax dollars at any problem…real or perceived…that might pop up on the public radar. Case in point is the aforementioned article regarding Senator Warren. Enough with worrying with the salt, pepper, and hot sauce…let’s take a look at federal spending.
Here
is all you need to know about our current federal debt: https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=422306283&gbraid=0AAAAADmTUDVpu_zMBwIKniO7bqpikrAxE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsK6y-5i_lwMVNy7UAR0X2jWgEAAYASAAEgI_BvD_BwE
. As recently as the mid-1990s, our
nation had a balanced federal budget and held substantial bipartisan
conversations about not only balancing our federal budget, but also beginning
to reduce/retire our federal debt. In the thirty years since, those sentiments
have become obsolete.
About
27 percent of our federal budget is discretionary;
the balance is baked in the cake through entitlement programs and debt
interest. Yet the overwhelming majority
of legislative time, effort, and media coverage are devoted to this 27 percent
portion while the other 73 percent is permitted to expand out of control. It is a
ticking bomb. Both Republicans and
Democrats rail about what our federal
tax dollars are spent on; but they never really discuss how much is spent. They are
all cowards who flock to the sound bite, but flee from the context.
The only meaningful way to begin to
address our national debt is to reform our entitlement spending in programs
like Medicaid and Social Security. Both of these topics have proven far too hot
for any politician of any stripe to address in a serious fashion. There is simply no elected official in WDC
today with the courage, wisdom, and influence to help establish precisely what
our government spending priorities should
be. They are, by and large, a bunch of
sniveling weaklings when it comes to fiscal accountability.
Government
should not and cannot be the answer to all the problems that exist in America
today. It must first decide…based on
our Constitution…what its FUNDAMENTAL priorities should be and then, once that
is determined, decide how to parcel out the LIMITED federal tax dollars to fund
them. They do this by responsibly
authoring and implementing TWELVE annual appropriation bills.
Failing
to execute the primary and difficult task of setting priorities leads me to the
second issue at hand; that being throwing money around like it never runs
out. Oh
wait a minute…the government prints the money, so I suppose…it never actually
runs out. That is the sentiment that
rules our governing bodies today. Our
Executive and Legislative branches fall all over each other coming up with a
list of our nation’s problems that only they…the
elected elite of our society…can solve. And
rather than prove the argument that it is a problem of such magnitude that ONLY the government can solve it, and having
made that case, then proceeding to formulate a transparent and thoughtful plan
to address the issue…they simply proclaim their magnificence by spending
millions, billions, or trillions of federal tax dollars to solve it. The details of the SOLVING are not relevant to the authors of the spending bills or
the media that covers it; the only important points to them are the ridiculous ACRONYMS naming the legislation and the
amount of money being devoted to the effort (i.e. the special interest groups that benefit from it). In
the eyes of WDC, money solves everything.
Our
government is supposed to be BY the
people and FOR the people. It is not.
It is BY the lobbying dollars
and FOR itself. If our federal government’s fiscal house will
ever again begin to approach reasonable order, it will be because our elected
leaders have come to terms with the harsh reality that government cannot be all
things to all people and must therefore select its priorities carefully. It will also be because there will be a
newfound effort among them to make hard decisions about WHO receives entitlements, the individual EXTENT of those entitlements, and the overall COST of those entitlements to the taxpayers who fund them. Pay close attention to the avalanche of
political ads we will be inundated with over the next few weeks and decide for
yourself…IS THERE ANY HOPE?
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Politics
and the Mid-Term Elections…
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/progressive-buyers-remorse/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-impossibility-of-independent-senators/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/barack-of-ages/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/10/12/republican-infighting-texas/
https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/politicians-play-orwells-word-games
Crime
and Justice…
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-midterm-elections-and-judicial-nominations/
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-takes-up-issue
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/confirmations-in-the-lame-duck/
Education…Education…Education…
https://reason.com/2026/10/14/college-still-has-a-future-but-its-no-longer-the-default-choice/
https://jamesgmartin.center/2026/10/higher-education-marketing-enrollment-cliff/
Foreign
Policy and National Defense…
https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/15/the-same-old-same-old-european-runaround/
https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/13/what-might-have-saved-gaza/
https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/the-fall-of-venezuela-29f77b11-3ad0-49e3-abfb-4e53db499870
Let us not forget exactly WHO
invaded WHO…
https://reason.com/2026/10/15/blame-russia-not-zelenskyy-for-the-ukraine-wars-endless-slog/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war-missile-strikes-kyiv-power-outages/
The
Economy…
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/10/congresss-2-trillion-problem/
https://reason.com/2026/10/15/a-third-round-of-legally-dubious-tariffs/
Don’t take the media’s word for it,
look at the facts and decide who saddled us with this chronic inflation cycle…
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
Quick
Hits on the Way out the Door…
The only way to eliminate our
obsession with discrimination is to stop obsessing with race and ethnicity:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/us-census-race-ethnicity-sexual-orientation-question-trump
Sometimes…we simply have to laugh
at ourselves:
America is increasingly dealing
with a rural vs. urban dynamic. I am of
the rural, but I do not resent, dislike, or wish ill of the urban. I simply choose to live in the country:
https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/12/the-splendor-of-rural-america/
It may be buried for now…but is it
truly dead? Something to consider when
voting next month:
https://americanmind.org/salvo/americas-net-zero-near-miss/
When NIL lunacy consumed collegiate
sports, it was predictable that this would be the logical conclusion. It is all about the benjamins:
And
why not enjoy some tunes…
Summertime is coming to a
close…hold the memories close…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6c8a90PWIM
One of the greatest American bands
of all time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBwq4A1wsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIJuuk1SFs
Here’s one the biggest stories out
of Texas…and it has NOTHING to do with politics…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWnIFlYKjs
My favorite cover band from
Kentucky goes where other cover bands dare not go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzRpVl17hM
Such a great writer and singer…what
a career…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowaOsutxA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsBstLRQrvM
Here are two more great ones…they
will not be replaced…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VOnyRhkFUM
At some point in our lives, we must
all deal with loss. When that time
arrives, our faith can sustain us…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCc7TCmKcwQ&list=RDBCc7TCmKcwQ&start_radio=1
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