(NaturalNews) A mugger confronts a business man walking down the street, flashing a sharp knife. "Give me all your money. I've got kids to feed," he insists. The business man calmly responds, "Well that's not fair, I've got kids to feed, too." Momentarily flummoxed, the mugger works out a bit of math and retorts, "Okay, I'm gonna take a balanced approach with you. Just give me HALF of all your money, and we'll call it even."
Such is the logic of the Obama administration, which now absurdly proposes that spending America into a total debt collapse is somehow a "balanced approach." Sure, it is balanced in the same way that a man walking a tightrope strung 35 stories above the city street, carrying two suitcases stuffed with hundreds of pounds of T-bills, with strong winds and a forecast of an approaching hail storm is also "balanced."
That Obama could even pretend such a scenario is healthy for the future of America just goes to show you the depth of financial insanity that has gripped the players in Washington D.C. -- on both sides of the aisle. Today, President Obama proposed spending cuts of $4 trillion over the next 12 years, but just as we figured, virtually none of those cuts kick in until Obama is out of office. They're all "back-loaded" cuts that happen at some theoretical time in the future rather than right now.
It's like a heroin addict who says, "I'll quit my habit tomorrow. Just not right now" as he takes another hit. Notably, Obama's so-called balanced budget cuts
don't balance the budget. A $4 trillion cut in spending over 12 years is still a complete joke, and here's why: The U.S. government will likely rack up
at least $30 trillion in new debt over those same 12 years, just based on a very conservative estimate of current growth rates in the debt.
In other words, under Obama's new plan,
the national debt will still grow by a net amount of $26 trillion over the next 12 years even after the $4 trillion in so-called cuts. Obama's debt spending is accelerating so rapidly that the mathematicians now call it a "blowout phase" of government debt.
And what, exactly, is getting blown out? Your future, of course. But according to
Obama, that's a "balanced approach." He's going to burden your children and grandchildren with the greatest debt the world has ever seen -- a debt so large and growing so quickly that no nation can conceivably escape from under its weight... especially a nation that has lost its manufacturing base, that has dumbed down its education system and that has routinely poisoned its population with fluoride, medications and chemical food additives.
The odds of America ever paying off its national
debt are approximately the same odds of a Japanese senior citizen surfing a 5-meter-high tsunami wave to the safety of dry land.
Enter the realm of economic voodoo (not to be confused with voodoo economics)
Debt apologists and deniers, of course, will calmly explain that it's all no problem. "America can handle a little more debt," they say. "We can just pay it off down the road, who cares?" History will soon show these people to be fools; and those who follow them cowards.
The beautiful thing about the English language is that it offers the breadth of possibilities to express almost any idea you can think of; but words alone don't make ideas true. The utterance that "We will balance the budget over the next ten years" doesn't actually make it happen. It is merely a moment of wishful thinking; like a wish upon a star:
Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Let the national debt be ZERO!Shazam! Like some sort of modern economic voodoo, we can wish away all our debt. You just have to BELIEVE in it, folks. You have to have faith, you see.
Obama's New Ministry of Economic Voodoo
In this way, Obama's "balanced approach" fiasco has become The New Ministry of Economic Voodoo. It is a non-denominational church where people of all races and national origins are welcome to join. But the most important factor necessary to join Obama's New Ministry of Economic Voodoo is that you completely abandon any attachments to economic reality and the laws of mathematics. Those things are mere burdens and have no place inside the New Ministry of Economic Voodoo. They will also distract you from the "faith" to be placed in the "savior" of Obama whose angelic powers will soon overcome the laws of economics, we are promised, much like Moses parting the Red Sea.
The Heaven's Gate cult which ended in 1997 with the mass suicide of its 39 members promised eternal life in Heaven if you would only kill yourself on command (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29). Obama's New Ministry of Economic Voodoo promises eternal budget surpluses if you will just kill your rational mind and surrender to the power of scripted verbal rhetoric.
Obama is to the U.S. economy what Marshall Applewhite was to the members of Heaven's Gate: The bringer of destruction, disguised as a savior. They both speak the language of salvation, but they only deliver the outcome of destruction. Both Applewhite and Obama are, by any reasonable reckoning,
false prophets who use their powers of persuasive rhetoric to gain power over the very people they are harming the most: their followers.
The message of the false prophet
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false prophet says, "I am going to save you. Follow me and stop thinking for yourself."
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genuine prophet says, "I am going to show you how to save yourself. Follow your inner wisdom and learn how to think for yourself."
Do you recognize which message Obama is spouting?
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false prophet comes to you dressed in a slick business suit, with a P.R. team and a cadre of image specialists who check his makeup, lighting and hair style to make sure the presentation is exactly right.
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genuine prophet may be dressed in ragged clothing and have holes in his shoes. His hands may still have soil on them from the garden, and his image is largely based on who he is from the inside out, not what he wants you to see from the outside in.
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false prophet needs a teleprompter for every speech because he has no inner wisdom to guide his words. His soul, and his mind, are empty.
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genuine prophet can speak from the heart, spontaneously and without rehearsing his words, because his speech comes from a place of authentic truth, not a scripted agenda.
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false prophet is obsessed with how the public sees him; he is constantly running polls and surveys to see what people think, and he uses those results to determine his direction.
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genuine prophet cares little about what others think; he is driven purely by principle, and his direction stays true to his intention regardless of the changes in public sentiment.
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false prophet practices the skills of oratory and persuasion in order to persuade people to close their minds and follow him without question.
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genuine prophet develops the skills of oratory and persuasion as a natural extension of the truth in his message, and he uses those skills to persuade people to OPEN their minds and start ASKING questions.
Here at NaturalNews, we don't claim to be prophets, but we do encourage everyone to open their minds and start asking lots of questions about health, freedom, government, environment, money and other topics. If you're new to NaturalNews, I'm the volunteer editor, and I've been writing articles like this for over seven years. Lately, I've been
unleashed in my writings due to the rapid acceleration of troubling world events and the need to reach people with articles that don't hold back and don't try to sugar coat the situation. Subscribe to my free email newsletter to receive a daily email update linking to each day's breaking news stories:
http://www.naturalnews.com/ReaderRegistration.htmlIn the mean time, stay on your toes, folks. We are all being fed a complete load of lies by the members of both political parties in Washington. The future of our nation's financial solvency is at stake, and these jokers are only making the problem worse with each passing moment.
Frankly, I now do not expect a solution to come from within the current system. This system is headed towards inevitable collapse, and we can only hope that what comes out of it in the aftermath will be more sensible and sustainable. The idea that we should all just vote for whichever professional politician tells the best-sounding lies has proven it doesn't work.
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