Mining Fool's Gold

The voter, the citizen, and the tax payer have been played for gold-plated fools. The political class has made us the miner and the mine as we toil to feather their nest. We labor hard and harder and only they are rewarded for it. They have grandiose ambitions and ostentatious plans from (in many instances) the local, (often) the state, and (invariably) the Federal level. Nationalisation of car companies, student loans, large swathes of the financial and insurance industry, and finally health care by Washington, more intrusive state busy bodies, and unnecessary and unaffordable local projects (in the case of my home town of Nashville- a Rolls-Royce gilded convention center as convention business collapses nationally, even in Las Vegas). Those governing us have no judgement and no discretion and are spending like there is no tomorrow as my nearly ninety year old father suggested as though they conceive of what they take from us as "Monopoly money", as if it is entirely theirs and play money to boot. Something Dad never even saw in the Great Depression that he supported his parents and four sibling through- this group in power acts as if the bill will never come due, but it must be paid in full by us and our children and succeeding generations, and it is a bill that if not soon contained will drown the nation in forever debt.