Monetary Selfishness

If you might recall, a few weeks ago, the government was on the verge of a shut down in midst of a fiscal battle in our nation's capital. For awhile, those politicians could only come up with an agreement for the current fiscal year thus pushing the inevitable to September. What good would that have done? To me, that's procrastination on a large scale. But I digress... I wanted to bring about the issue of the economy because it is on all of our minds. I am not claiming to be a economic genius or in any way able to solve this issue, but as always I would like to put in my two cents.

As we all know, the last couple of years have thrown us into a economic whirlpool. We are trillions of dollars in debt, people are losing jobs left and right, and the economy as a whole has gone down the drain. As of right now, we are slowly starting to recover. The job rate has been at its' highest since the beginning of the crash. Regardless, our deficit as a country is completely out of control. Analysts do say that it will probably take ten years or so, if not longer for us to fully recover from our deficit. I do not think that any country in this world is not suffering from some sort of deficit, which makes me wonder how we rank among all the countries in the world that are in debt. Yet again, I digress.

If you recall, both sides of the right and left spectrum could not agree upon a way to help our deficit and establish a proper budget for the next fiscal year. Of course the biggest problem was the cut backs. Clearly, cut backs must be made in order to alleviate our problem with the deficit. Here's my thought, stop being so selfish everyone. We have brought ourselves at this point so clearly many things must be eliminated. It does not necessarily mean that such programs will be forever eliminated, but until our deficit is clear, non essential programs SHOULD be reduced if not eliminated.

There's all these dilemmas regarding medicare, medicaid, planned parenthood, etc... Those are pretty much the top three that appear to be constantly debated about. Guess what people of America?? THEY SHOULD BE CUT IF NOT ELIMINATED!! If you know my views, I am for planned parenthood, I'm totally for medicaid, I'm totally for medicare, but guess what folks, we're on the verge of bankruptcy and such luxuries are unnecessary. I think that the one thing that both sides can agree on is higher taxes for the rich. Well of course, that doesn't affect the masses but will it solve our deficit? Not even close.

Here's a way to solve our deficit, stop being so selfish about programs that are apparently "essential" because in reality are they essential? We could be living in way worse conditions and yet we whine and complain about what we have. In my opinion, as a country, we have been handed the silver platter. These so called "essential" programs are not really essential at all and are merely just an added bonus to what we have already been given.

So here's my thought, let's stop being selfish, eliminate unnecessary spending on these so called "essential" programs for the time being. If elimination is impossible, scale back on it. When our country no longer has a deficit and is back in its' full force, bring these programs back. Then again, that's just my two cents.