The Choice

Several days ago I drove into one of the worst ghettos of my hometown, sadly a place where I once had to factor in armed security for a project we bid on, but anyway, I went to this job that sat on the corner of the streets you see in the photo below.

Prosperity and Easy streets.

On one corner of this intersection rested a crumbling, dilapidated home with a collapsing porch filled with what appeared to be able-bodied people drinking large beers gripped in one hand and holding their pants up with the other hand.  It was one o'clock in the afternoon and I thought to myself, man, we really are at a crossroads here in America.

We have the Easy Street path we've been on for the last four years where not working has been rewarded with tremendous increases in public spending on welfare programs which, as a side effect,  has disincentivized the moral obligation to work and produce and pay taxes.  If everyone wants fairness in our system, then what about these able-bodied who pay no tax at all? I'm tired of paying for them.

Easy Street has also reduced the amount of respect once paid to a worthy superpower.  We now appear weak as we bow to the demands of third and fourth world dictators, warlords and psychopaths.  Our weakness has also emboldened our biggest threats like Russia, China and various Islamofascist gangs around the world to seek power and bounty at will.

Easy Street is no easy street.

Then there is Prosperity Street, a path in which our government cuts taxes and regulations and reduces spending on useless and absurd governmental programs (Piss Christ anyone? Solyndra?).  This path of fiscal control and lowered tax rates encourages its businesses and citizens to produce which creates more revenue via taxation because the business and the person are both able to spend or invest more of the money they have earned.

On Prosperity Street the government gets out of the way of the people and lets her citizenry determine their own choices in life, and afterward, suffer the dividends or consequences of personal choice and responsibility as is deemed by our creator.

Prosperity Street means a strong balance sheet and a balanced budget and a government that operates within the means that are generated by the tax revenue it collects.  Deficit spending and ballooning debt ceilings are a surefire way to bankrupt what was once the most stable and prosperous economy ever known to mankind.

Easy Street?  The street of people too stupid to buy belts?

Or Prosperity Street?  The street of hard-working individualism?

Make the choice in November.