Oh my, someone has forgotten to use politically correct
language; their not bums, they’re less fortunate. There’s a headline article on Fox, Republicans Caught in Austerity Trap, trying to explain how it won’t matter how the
GOP leadership approaches the Fiscal Cliff, any way they move they lose.
To a certain extent that’s true because the track record of
the GOP serves only to remind folks that they are the Party of Stupid for
permitting the opposition to define them.
Speaking of defining things; how about that word, Austerity?
At one time it conjured up folks doing without necessities;
but here in America
it means folks might only be able to have one free cell phone for each person living in their taxpayer
paid for Section 8 housing while driving to the unemployment line to pick up
their check all the while sitting in a two year old piece of junk Lexus. Austerity?
You’ve got to be kidding!
Austerity: 1. Extreme plainness and simplicity of style or
appearance.
2. Sternness or severity of manner or attitude.
3.
A state of reduced
spending and increased frugality in the financial sector.
Tyler Cowan asked the question What is austerity not too long ago as
he tried to understand the rational that not increasing entitlements while
raising taxes didn’t seem to meet the criteria, concluding:
“In any case, austerity is a misleading and often misunderstood word. It is better if we describe policies more concretely, and in fact that is not hard to do. Furthermore, insisting on a clearer accounting should not be equated with “austerity denial.”’
The Republican Party has permitted progressives to once
again set the table in their own favor by letting them define the meaning of
words we once understood as meaning one thing; changing them to mean what ever
suits their needs.
Austerity now means that rich folks should feel bad for
being successful, they should be ashamed for not paying enough in taxes so that
every lazy good for nothing bum can’t live in a single family residence worth
at least two hundred thousand dollars while driving an executive styled luxury
sedan even though these bums are unwilling to put in the necessary effort. If at any time these bums might have to
settle for a cheaper version of a free cell phone, live in a less than palatial
residence or settle for mass transit to pick up their unemployment check; well
that’s the new meaning of austerity.
Here in my own house austerity is a way of life; we don’t
buy it if we can’t pay for it. We do
without until we can pay for things like a new car, high definition television,
granite counter tops in the kitchen, replacement flooring where the vinyl has
chipped or worn thin in the kitchen, carpet for the upstairs that’s been
shredded by one or more of our Hobo Kitties over the years, a modern more
efficient air conditioning system and other items on our wants and desires
list.
We look in our wallet before going out to eat on date night;
hamburgers and French Fries will cost half of a sit down meal at a reasonably
priced Mexican food place and that’s half again as expensive as a nice steak
dinner. Things like that are what I call
austerity in action; spending only what you can afford to spend; but we’re old
fashioned and live within our means to begin with.
So don’t tell me the folks in Washington are considering halting our trip
towards the Fiscal Cliff from which there is no return other than as slaves to
those who have purchased our unfathomable debt.
Both parties are equally to blame for spending us into debt; more these
past four years than all previous administrations combined since our nation won
its independence.
If we dropped back to a spending level equal to that of 2008, as
opposed to what is currently up for grabs, even that wouldn’t be considered
austere; not by any stretch of Noah Webster’s definition of the word. The bums who were sucking off the taxpayer’s
teat then were living high off the hog; they’ve found they can demand more and
get it so they keep demanding more.
Maybe when the entire economy comes crashing down, maybe
then folks will learn the real meaning of austerity. Until then these bums will continue living fat
off their neighbor’s efforts, all the while complaining they don’t have enough.
This article has been cross posted to
The Moral Liberal, a publication whose banner reads, “Defending The
Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government, & The American Constitution”.
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