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About Jim Crum
Mr. Crum manages Customer Support
for an automotive repair company. He has a BS and an MS from the University of
Illinois, has worked for the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Yellow Pages and as a
store manager for Bridgestone-Firestone. |
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A Town
Called Theory |
Jim Crum
A Town Called Theory
March 4, 2010
Someday I am going to pack up and move all of my friends, all of my
family, and the entire federal government, to a town called Theory. Why? Because
in Theory, everything works.
Besides a functioning government, a second result would be an
eruption of plain discourse from DC.
We’ve all heard promises of an economic recovery, promises of
fiscal restraint, road maps for our nation, and "Pay-Go” rules for legislation
and bills.
The public has grown tired and frankly skeptical of the cheer
leading from DC. Bromides and platitudes are not sound policy, and like the
sloganeering found in the enlightened "Peoples Republics”, no one believes our
leadership anymore. To this writer, it certainly seems that the general public
knows something is wrong. There is a terrible disconnect between the governed
and the governing. And it is not just the economy, but also in the way that it
is discussed and what information is brought to light. At first tacitly and
eventually more forcefully, the consent of the governed will be withdrawn if the
trend is unchecked.
This morning I had the opportunity to read a posting from Nathan’s
Economic Edge. I would encourage any lucid citizen to read it and
purposefully examine the graphs posted by Nathan. It shows, clearly and in stark
terms, the enormous lattice work deceit we have been fed by too many in control
of our nation and the fourth estate.
The trajectory we travel is perfectly clear, it is in the wrong
direction, and it raises serious questions as to whether we can pull the nose up
on this thing.
If we cannot exorcise financial rot, moral decay, waste and fraud
from our midst, circumstances will force it upon us. In my reading of history I
have seen the hand of providence in the workings of nations and the lives of
men. I think that hand has, like the story in Daniel and Belshazzar’s feast,
written onto our national wall.
Liberty can survive -even flourish- in such circumstances as it
does not require material wealth to function. Yet, it does require stability and
adherence to basic rules and standards of conduct. An economic implosion we
could survive, provided that it did not rend the social contract we follow. A
very dicey game of chicken we are playing right now. In the vernacular: hope
that the medicine does not kill the patient at the same time it kills the
disease.
For those who worship the god of this world, whose aspirations are
limited to life here on earth, their temple, their altars will be burned
to the ground. It will happen, but at great expense to everyone. Yet, I am
afraid that is the choice we made by being asleep at the switch as a nation.
I am a short term pessimist, but a long term optimist.
Time will tell. |
