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Evangelical Christians Bad!
I know better than to check social media first thing in the morning.
The first thing that popped up on my feed was a long-winded whinge about field hospitals in Myanmar being closed due to cuts in US aid. The whinger then goes on to opine at length about how Evangelical Christians are responsible because they put Orange Man Bad into office, and they’re just big hypocritical meanies who are hypocritical. And mean.
Setting aside the fact that — boy, howdy — am I not an Evangelical Christian, I’d like to gently drive a single point home:
The United States of America is $38,111,295,151,230 in debt.
Every single person living inside the borders of the United States of America owes $111,659.
You owe $111,659 on that debt — on top of your personal debt.
Your mother owes $111,659 — above and on top of her personal debt.
The baby who just got her umbilical cord cut owes $111,659.
And tomorrow that amount that you, and every other person in America owes, will be higher.
The plain and simple fact of the matter is that the United States of America cannot keep spending money. The government of the United States of America has been recklessly profligate with the tax money they squeeze out of the citizens, and has spent themselves into a financial hole currently thirty-eight trillions of dollars deep.
When that debt collapses — and it will — the consequences will be catastrophic and global. Closing field hospitals in Myanmar may be bad, but it doesn’t touch the hem of the garment of Bad that will land on the world when the U.S. has to default on its debt.
If we had bothered to vote into office politicans who were financially literate and fiscally responsible there’s a chance we could keep funding field hospitals in Myanmar — but, instead, we voted into office parasites who burned through pallets of cash at a rate that caused drunken sailors to exclaim, “Hold on, now.”
The current US debt is 38 trillion dollars. It will pass 40 trillion dollars in the next calendar year.
This. Is. Unsustainable.
Excess funding has to end. We have to pump the brakes on the U.S. Money Train. Not “want to” — “have to”.
That’s not an Evangelical Christian thing. That’s not a MAGA thing. That’s not a Conservative thing.
That is simply the cold, hard mathematical truth of the economic equation. The equation that also says that when the house of cards that is the United States Debt finally collapses, the globe goes up in flames.
And I’m not in the mood to play warlord again.
Ian
Being the founder of a wonderful and failed business thanks to Covid, unfulfilled promises, and too much debt believing times would get good again, may I say, very respectfully, that the hell created when my personal business failed would be a minor scratch compared to the major surgical, blood loss, limb loss, corporal destruction of the United States of America as a business. You can turn a battleship in the ocean, but you need time and a lot of room. Stopping the ship from sinking means first putting a captain in charge who can change the course. We did. He needed to fire a number of lame-brained Executive Officers, and he's done that. One small change at the top can have a positive ripple effect on the ship. We need to keep Captains who understand 'business and order' in charge, and, despite all, we have hope.
The Cold Equations, writ on a planetary scale.
The Life Boat Equations come next.