Standard and Poor

So Standard and Poor's ( S&P) have finally acted and downgraded the United States Economy and credit rating from a AAA rating to an AA+. What this means is that our ability to issue debt will come at a much higher interest rate, compounding the debt burden on us and the nation's total debt, which already exceeds $15 trillion dollars! In other words, spending more will require significant spikes in interest rates (perhaps even greater than Obama's ego). And throughout this present economic turmoil, our own President looks on amorously at his own reflection in the dirty pool of apathy, self-aggrandizement, and the refuse of consumed "Prez Obama" hamburger wrappers. How tragic that so many people still choose to live and learn the hard way. Like the famous poem by Joseph Malens, "The Ambulance Down in the Valley," our painted government represents the same deluded ego mass who prides itself in repairing the results rather than stopping the cause. Such foolish thinking is the very reason why our nation is in such dire straits at this time. Preferring the ambulance to sit below in the valley rather than to construct a fence from above as a safeguard for the people [and in this case our very nation], Washington's close lean over the cliff of bankruptcy, unemployment, war, and poverty, has left us vulnerable to all forms of external influence, where only the slightest push by a wayward gust or foreign/domestic despot can send us straight down to slavery. As Benjamin Franklin once warned, "Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another the power over your liberty." The Founding Fathers viewed debt as evil, because it really is a form of bondage.

What is even more deplorable, is that on the way down, in place of flailing limbs and open hysterics, Obama and his undead followers will be more synchronous and steady during their olympic back double somersault tuck dive toward the valley below. Like the kingmen of the Book of Mormon, who loved power over liberty, there exists among us the very same ilk who rejoice at our present economic and moral downturns. Such modern-day devils laugh at man's descent toward insolvency from his core values and principles that in truth are the only things that can really bring him personal, national, and spiritual security and victory. In their madness at the people of liberty (the Tea Party, i.e. American citizens) they find reason to celebrate their being subjugated, pleasuring themselves in a slavish adoration of Italy's "The Tomb of the Diver" where sport, fancy, and oiled treatment makes them even more slippery subjects, easily maneuvered and influenced without question. It is as sorrowful as it is tragic but there are still those among us who choose to line up in stride on bended knee before the court jesters of government, replacing their own individual kingship and sovereignty with that of an iron shackle. The solution then to our current economic situation is the same remedy for all of life's problems, developing the will power to make the change to where our time is spent away from stores and the noxious atmosphere of government programs and toward denouncing uncontrolled spending and stopgap solutions on both fiscal and moral issues.

It ought to be requisite then that the nest of serpents which have spewed poisonous venom into our financial market, beginning with our own impious President, should be the one(s) to ring the opening bell on Wall Street each and every morning in full view of a disgruntled nation whose once virtuous and prosperous course has been merrily altered toward the edge of utter despondency. While at the bottom, stirs the valley of despair and defeat where the miserable cry out for succor as the rich man did for Lazarus while in torment and flame (Luke 16:24). And with his "good things" now gone, the self-serving man's only remnant of wealth will be the frayed purple linen of his clothes to expose his scales and abject nakedness, an appropriate end to an improper and squandered life. Still, and more sorrowfully, the rising cries of the defeated are legion, joined in unison in favor of a new model of an American nation as a "poor" one - deprived of spirit and virtue, the ever waving standard of the fallen.

Long live the fighters