In the budget stare-down, that republican majority in the House of Representatives, yeah, that bunch that we (well, some of us) pinned our hopes on last November, they blinked.

Actually, the majority wasn’t serious in the first place.

And when I say “majority”, you can just forget about that “D” or “R” tag behind their names.  It boils down to this:  The majority of our legislators at the federal level are NOT serious about fixing the budget deficit.  Sure some of them posture and “fight” (That’s politic-speak for “do some more talking when I plan on going the other way”) just enough to sway the gullible, but at the end of the day, this is what we get.

I didn’t expect much more, really.  I’ve absorbed oxygen on this ball of rock long enough to realize that the last couple of hundred years are an anomaly and that in a while, we’ll descend back to the “nasty, brutish and short” lifestyle.

“Oh, but Cajun, the Government can’t do that…”  No?  Put the WRONG people in power.  Study history.  We’re repeating the bad lessons.  Mugabe didn’t get into power in Zimbabwe (It was Rhodesia back then) because he was unpopular.  He said the right words and promised abundance to the masses from the hard labors of the productive few.  And it worked for a few decades.

The budget?  Oh, come on, folks!  The whole “We’re cutting the budget” debate was just an iota short of silly in the first place.  Get real…

Here’s the problem:

We’re spending twice as much as we take in.  Now, if you and I woke up one morning and saw a major cut in pay and our household budget started looking like that, after the initial panic (assuming we didn’t see it coming) we’d start cutting out things and selling off things and slimming  and streamlining to survive.

Not the government.  After all, a bunch of people who’ve NEVER worked real jobs now have the power to print money.  so they just print more money.

And then they talk about doing what you and I know must be done, but let’s look at how serious they are  Here’s what our brave republican majority wanted to do to fix a trillion-dollar plus (this year) deficit:

 

Okay, that’s not fair, maybe, comparing the proposals of our brave, strong Republican majority in the House. Let’s look at the amount they proposed in terms of that deficit number:

 

There!  that’s better, huh?  As in teenaged son:  “Dad, gimme a Benjamin so I can go to the concert with my buds!”  Dad:  “No way, son!  You’ve got to learn responsibility.  Here’s $95.”  son walks away thinking, “Damn!  Now we have to drink the middle tier tequila!”

Of course, you need to compare it with the huge sacrifices that the dimmocrats were willing to make:

 

There!  That makes you feel better, doesn’t it?  Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy…

 

Trouble is, folks, that when the final fall comes, we’re going to have to fight our way into exclusive gated communities to get to the people who need hanging…

They don’t have to be out to get you specifically if they just get the whole lot of us…