I need someone to draw political cartoons for some of my points.
In the meantime, I have to describe them with words, and hope you can picture them.
Side note—I once saw a peanuts cartoon in the elementary school of Nova University in South Florida. “TV puts pictures in your eyes; books put pictures in your mind.”
I’m sure there are hundreds of cartoons on the fiscal cliff. Here’s mine:
The cliff is real.
The cliff has no bottom.
The cliff has a few ledges on the way down.
The economy is a caravan with assorted sizes and shapes of vehicles, traveling on the large plain above the cliff.
There is plenty of room on the plain for everyone to build their vehicles, drive them around, test them for function, durability, and efficiency. Some crash, others learn and change as needed.
Every good driver knows his vehicle best. The rest don’t exist for long.
People who need what these vehicles have to offer, appreciate the choices for how they can spend their money.
Smart drivers in the caravan stay away from the cliff.
What could entice a driver of a vehicle in the caravan of the economy to drive toward the cliff?
Now we get to the point quickly . . .
The government is building a bridge across the cliff—a cantilevered bridge (as in leveraged?) . . .
The government’s goal is to build the cantilevered bridge long enough to extend beyond all the intermediate ledges on the way down the cliff.
The government promises shortcuts to success (superficial, fabricated) and handouts (stimulus to stupidity) for getting on the government’s bridge.
If the government’s promises are not inviting enough, welcome to the reality of second-term “flexibility.”
What motivates the government?
Several things—one is the government charging (taking, stealing) whatever it wants from the vehicles after they get on the one-way bridge (after they swallow the cool-aid promises with the stimulus handouts).
Another motivation (crazy, insane, evil) is someone in the government who can’t stand the awesome, successful vehicles in the caravan, and targets the best to force them onto the bridge first.
Now the truth comes out—only a few see it in time, ahead of time . . .
The cantilevered bridge is off of a cliff, not across a chasm.
The cantilevered bridge is indeed a bridge to nowhere.
The cantilevered bridge is a one-way bridge into a fog.
The cantilevered bridge has no roadblock or sign at the end.
The cantilevered bridge’s length is limited by its support on the cliff.
The cantilevered bridge is supported by taxes and debt.
Now you can see how we can appear to go over the cliff for awhile before the real crashes start.
Ominous end of all this . . .
Greedy governments and greedy people in power in the government are never satisfied with just “a little more” from the rich, followed by “a little more” from the poor, followed by . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
NO
IT’S OUR FREEDOM, STUPID.
I hate calling American voters “stupid.”
But I appeal to the other half of American voters who are not stupid . . .
Arm your vehicles against cooperating with the government cliff talk and bridge schemes.
Arm yourself.
Protect your family.
PRAY.
Read the Constitution.
Even if the Constitution is trashed, God will honor those who follow its principles based on Divine Wisdom.
Today we have access to the same Source of Wisdom that the founding fathers called on to write the Constitution.
We may have to start over, but we have history’s greatest example to follow—The United States of America.
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