Everything Old Is New Again! “Steal $500 from a politician and it is a crime, steal a trillion and it is a statistic”

The more things change the more they stay the same…

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
— Cicero – 55 BC

That was a comment at the always interesting Fabius Maximus when Fabius asked how to fix what is broke in the United States.

Ironically here is the comment that was directly below.

Agenda as follows:
1. Get out of Afghanistan. There’s no threat there, and it’s too expensive.
2. Reform health care, and socialize all its costs. Lower payments to doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies.
3. Adopt diversified energy policy to provide a wide base of energy sources. Modernize electrical grid.
4. Establish 40 year plan to update and modernize rail freight and passenger services. Make work and make something at the same time.
5. Re-balance income equities through a combination of much higher taxes on the well-off and much higher wages for the less well-off.
6. Invest in highest quality educational infrastructure: schools as edifices. Increase teacher standards, teacher training, and teacher pay.
7. Get banking in line. After defense and space exploration, no sector is as dependent on government support as the financial sector. How the hell do those guys pay themselves so much money?
Write the White House, contact your congressmen, badger the media. Work, work, work.

That has to be Rahm Emanuel’s sock puppet since that list is right out of the Obama playbook and it is what will kill this country.

What is wrong with this country is us.

We have become corrupt, fat, lazy, scared, disgusting individuals who believe that somehow the greatness of our ancestors rubs off on us without our having to endure any of the privations that forged our ancestors. We are more interested in box scores than politicians, even when those politicians are engaged in a theft so massive that no one can believe it. We pay more attention to yards gained than we do to laws broken. We pay more attention to points scored than we do to freedoms lost. We get more upset by victory’s of sports teams than the losses at the hands of corrupt politicians of our pension funds.

Perhaps we should apply Stalin’s quote: “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” it seems that our politicians are using this line of thinking regarding our money.