Rand Paul can't vote for a budget plan that has no path to balancing the budget.

There are very, very few principled, honorable statesmen in our government.  Some appear to say the right thing one day but within a short period of time they reverse themselves or their true agenda is exposed.  One litmus test of dishonesty which can be broadly applied to either Dem or GOP "leaders" today is whether their plans count on and require the use of existing and future new debt to succeed.  Anyone whose plan does not include the rapid elimination of government deficit (and then, in short order, the debt) fails the litmus test of honest, truthful statesmanship.

Ron Paul has been telling the truth for decades.  He has been warning us that this day of reckoning would come and he has been teaching those who would hear what the reasons for the collapse would be.  He lives and votes by his principles.  He formally rejected the ridiculously generous congressional pension years ago and has waived his rights to the associated payouts.  These are not the actions of a con man or a liar.  This act of leadership by example is why I ever started to listen to Congressman Ron Paul in the first place. 

Now we have his son, Rand Paul, as a Senator for the state of Kentucky.  I applaud the people of Kentucky for their courage and wisdom - their act of voting in Rand Paul proves that Kentucky is a leader among US states when it comes to the subject of honest government.  Rand is following in his father's footsteps.  He is also proving that his vote is guided and even mandated by principle and that it cannot be bought for money or altered even by the real threat of consequences that must result from the eventual telling of the truth. 

Rand Paul knows that the discussion happening in the US government today with respect to the debt ceiling vote is a charade.  He knows that the cuts being mentioned include big sounding numbers but which are amortized across many years.  He knows that nothing being proposed by Boehner or Obama or any of the other con men in political office will ever result in a balanced budget.  As a result, he will not vote for any of it because he knows that a vote for it is a vote for attempting to fool the people a little longer and a vote to kick the can down the road once again.  Honest people will have none of it.

It's a difficult thing to tell the truth when the telling of it promises to collapse the inflated expectation of one's constituents.  Unfortunately, the only other option is to pile lie upon lie in order to delay the day when the people must be told the truth.  This might not seem a bad option for many people.  If you delay the pain long enough, heck, you might even out live it.  The main problem I have with that is that delaying the truth is not an impact-neutral path. By that I mean that it does not simply delay a problem of given size until later.  In fact, quite the opposite.  The longer we delay, the bigger the problem must become.   It is not "free" to anyone to delay the day of reckoning.

Why do I think this is the case?  Many, many reasons.  But the short list is:

• It costs real money to perpetuate the lie.  Papering over the problems is not free.  And lots of the money being spent to maintain the status quo is going to those who are most responsible for the economic abuses.  If I cut away all the noise, the perpetuation of the scam really boils down to government bribes paid to moneymen to keep the scam rolling.  They would have cut and run for their lives long ago without government backing of them to try to create a so called "soft landing".  But as long as government is standing between them and the wrath of the people, the moneymen will continue their parasitic activity.
• All of this is happening as boomers retire.  Boomers are stronger today both physically and financially than they will be in 5 or 7 or 10 years.  Allowing the collapse to occur today gives them the opportunity to rethink everything while they still have physical and economic energy to protect themselves.
• The weak economy is affecting the growth of young people around the world today.  They cannot get the jobs they need which will allow them to acquire the skills and experience that one cannot obtain in school.  This is most apparent in places like Spain where 45% of the people under the age of 25 are unemployed with no prospects for gainful employment.  By kicking the collapse down the road we are also kicking the recovery down the road.  As a result we are stealing the careers of young people the world over.  This is not just a "too bad for them" situation.  All future value comes from labor.  As the current generation retires it will need to continue consuming.  That consumption requires production by someone else, namely young people.  If that production is hampered then I guarantee you that the consumption by the retiring masses will also be hampered.
• The young will be saddled with unpayable debt OR more likely, will be pressed into wars in order to settle the debts using violence.

I do not want to be associated with any of the above.  I do not want it on my conscience.  I would rather the whole damned economic scam be allowed to collapse under its own corrupt weight.  I would rather have less for myself today than to go to my grave knowing I just went along knowingly with the scam.  I can't change anything by myself.  Violence is out of the question and those doing it to effect political change are worse than those who they seek to attack. This blog along with my small political contributions to those seeking honest government are my small way of dissenting.  If everyone did this same small level of contribution to fixing things then things would get fixed.  Feel free to do your part.  Talk to others about the problems.  Don't be put off by sheeple who would try to intimidate you into silence.  Suspend disbelief and suppress your herding instincts that tell you to lay back and not make waves.  Educate yourself so that when people rightfully question your views they are literally smothered with an outpouring of truth, knowledge, facts, reason and history. 

Unfortunately, at this point you cannot tell yourself that you don't know the truth.  You would not be reading my blog if you hadn't already taken the red pill.  You can no longer hide behind ignorance as an excuse for not doing your little part.