By George Scaggs
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas The question Who won the debt ceiling battle Democrats or Republicans?" reverberates across the land. Everyone wants to know and everyone has an opinion. And so it goes in the land of the oblivious. After we finally get an important issue to stick in the news cycle beyond 48 hours Big Media concludes the matter with a query that misses the point altogether.
But then even when dealing with the most serious of matters the questions posited by those who pass as journalists are rarely intended to provide illumination. Instead in addition to injecting ones bias the idea is to gin-up more political squabbling. After all squabbling is their stock and trade. If not there to simply stir the pot they would all have to pack up and go out to find real jobs with some sort of intrinsic value.
Though it should be of little surprise as it turns out dealing with the nations insurmountable debt was not the point at all. Rather it was reaching agreement on the means to continue to avoid the elephant in the room while creating the illusion that the gargantuan was finally being engaged.
With shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords return to the U.S. House to cast her vote the picture of a historic" occasion was complete. Her brave gesture provided just the right amount of dramatic flair to cloak the issue in the noble concept of compromise. And there you have it same chapter different verse.
The narrative which suggest that as long as Democrats and Republicans in Washington can agree there is no need to worry even when it means driving a once thriving nation into the ground has long since been insipid and has now grown to be insulting.
To an increasing number of observers this one included it is becoming painfully clear that politics and seriousness are becoming two mutually exclusive things. Never mind the self-proclaimed geniuses who report on it all.
At the risk of sounding like a stick in the mud our nation and our people happen to be suffering from some most serious problems perhaps none larger than the nations debt.
Forget politics. In the practical sense it is Washingtons political class who won the debt ceiling battle. Subsequently the entirety of a nation lost. Indeed
America appears to be stuck in some cruel parallel universe which is devoid of proper leadership.
Though the federal government has long since been broke though they are now borrowing 43 cents of every dollar they spend (a statistic one would think sufficient to start a revolution) it will continue to spend with reckless abandon wreaking havoc in a ripple fashion all along the way.
Let it be known that genuine spending cuts in the nations capitol are an anomaly. There are almost never actual reductions in spending. It is always someday" in the distant future smoke and mirrors reductions in horribly inflated future growth projections etc. The governments own books tell the story.
Following what we were told was a momentous deal this week government spending at-large will continue to grow trillion dollar annual deficits will still grow as will the nations $15 trillion debt.
Along the way well build Frisbee parks install internet in Egypts mosques and study genital washing in South Africa. Well still continue to pay $50 billion a year in fraudulent Medicare device claims. We may even continue to purchase guns in states along the southern border and then hand them over to murderous thugs in Mexico.
Throughout it all there are some who will continue to cheer our government on at every turn. It looks as though the bloated bureaucracy and government workers unions the dependent class the Socialists and raging progressives and of course Big Media will remain forever faithful to the bitter end.
Imagine the discomfort of various big government advocates upon the realization that the first $1100 or so that Washington spends on their behalf (this year alone) gets them nothing. No roads or infrastructure projects no firemen or police no schools no teachers no free or reduced price lunches no health care and no jobs. Nada!
Of course the real tragedy is that the same is true for the remainder of each and every one of over 300 million Americans. Worse yet with each passing day the percentage of what each one of us sends to Washington that gets us nothing in return is growing unabated.
This year our benevolent master will spend that first $350 billion just to service the debt theyve been racking up. By the end of the decade on our current path projections tell us that Washington will have tripled that amount in annual interest payments. If interest rates move (they can only go up) annual payments could be well beyond a trillion dollars.
And so the story is written. Among other troubling equations taxpayers are on a quick path to be on the hook for a cool $1 trillion in interest payments each year.
It will have been accomplished in the spirit of compromise and all will be right with the world.
George Scaggs is a writer commentator voice actor & audio-video producer. You can find more of his work at American Thinker Ramparts360.com & Bargain Citizen Media.
