Sue the Federal Government

My thoughts aren't totally clear on this matter, but I grow tiresome of our current government. No, it isn't Bush's fault. It's a conglomerate of all of them. Working together yet not accomplishing anything. I don't mean that by "working together" they are being bipartisan. No, I mean they're all scheming together and rubbing each others backs, while fighting face to face and drawing imaginary lines.

My whole point revolves around something in the Eighties. Back then, I remember talk of the federal deficit, then looming around 4 trillion dollars. It's more than twice that now. But the point is that back then, they were talking about how they needed to end it and not "pass it onto our children" - or something to that effect. Well, here I am, +20 years later, and we've mortgaged huge swaths of our land to other countries to pay our debts. That $150 billion dollar stimulus check we all got a part of a few months ago? From China. Which, as you've all heard, weakened our dollar substantially and caused inflation to surge. Sure, the dollar is recovering, but the trends aren't.

Ed McMahon is in the poor house right now, and Donald Trump is helping him pay his mortgage, or should I say, bought Ed's house and allows him to lease it now. It's a nice publicity for The Hair and Ed retains some dignity. From the reliable radio, I heard that Ed's wife was able to spend $300,000 in one month. Where is the fiscal responsibility? Well, I parry that question to our government. Which leads me to the title topic; We The People, need to sue our government.

Call it a divorce, or whatever. But the fact of the matter is this; these people in our government are not looking out for us, and in turn, have created a culture that unfortunately 90% of US citizens are partaking in: living beyond our means. I'm not blameless, I have debt beyond a mortgage and car payments, and it makes my right eye twitch whenever I dwell on it. But does it bother them at all? Have you heard much about the federal deficit this election year?

Some people are blind to this topic, even though this year we've hit an all-time high, around $700 billion (stimulus check included) in deficit to be added to the overall ~$9.6 trillion, which has been growing for several decades. Next year, thankfully, it'll be under $500 billion to be tacked on top of that by most estiamtes. Sure, the Iraq war is one cost, but it's about 15% of the yearly debt, if even. The real cost is a lack of self-sufficiency. It's an agenda, pushing towards socialism even though we're not. We have so many federal programs, that we don't tax enough to support them.

But, I'm not about to cause a civil war or instigate a revolution or rally for socialism. I think there is much to be salvaged, yet need not to shed our own blood over it. So I suggest the civilized and current American way of life; we sue. Everyone can relate to this method. When I worked at the law firm, a common fact tossed around is that every US citizen gets sued at least 4 times in their life. I've got two done, my wife has one, so we're not half-way there yet, unfortunately. Meh, side tangent. Sorry.

The point is this; we already have the Supreme court justices who have no qualms putting aside public majorities to make asinine laws. This lawsuit against our fiscally irresponsible legislators, even if dismissed, at least sends a message that we are tired of this facade of "all is well." Debtors will want money, and if not money, then our lands. Kinda parallels the whole oil subject, rely on others and their pricing, or drill our own and be self sufficient?

On the frank side of things, I am not sure what "winning" means. If it meant that those of us who agreed with the lawsuit could now abstain from paying federal taxes until fiscal responsibility was met, then I would be pleased (as I could pay off my own debt...). But if it meant we fired the current legislators, well, that may not be a bad thing either. Lord knows some of them need a good sense of humility since they're supposed to be "public" servants.

The fact that lawsuits are up is another good indicator of our times. We're desperate as individuals to make ends meet that we'll go to court over a paint-transfer on a bumper collision. Yet, that may be the means by which we absolve our international debts; "don't collect on this money or we'll annihilate your country. Yes, you technically own Montana and most of Mississippi, but my finger is on the big red scary button, and I've got a headache..."

Let's sue! Because the alternative is to do nothing, which hasn't worked thus far. And don't tell me Obama is the cure. He's rhetoric; they all are.