Is there a way back?

I like to poke fun at things. I like to compile funny and slanted one-liners like everyone else. We all like to give an impression of a given topic in a simple headline type fashion. No need to get into the ones and zeros of it all, leave that to the media. See there is another one. I wish the heading of this post was one of them.

We are on an unsustainable path.Government employees are seeing their incomes shoot up, they have no shortage of jobs or expansion. This congress is creating stimulus packages for them, trying to add health care to the mix. State and local governments are following the same path to get stimulus money. They know, as do we, that we the people will have to pick up the lions share of any given projects cost, and the initial money came from us too. We also have the burden of the ongoing costs to operate and maintain these endeavors. All of this financed by debt, the trillion dollar deficit kind, because we are out of money. Destruction is the only ending to this story.

We are killing our private sector and in doing so we are destroying our only hope of being able to provide these piles of money. Yes the piles that have already been spent, yes the piles we will need to sustain our current situation, and yes the piles we have promised to people in the future. Taxing the private sector job givers will only make it worse. Less employment less piles of money. Tax the private sector companies, more expensive goods, more sales tax, but less people can afford to buy, less piles of money. Destruction as the ending.

The way back is simple. We must cut spending far below our revenue intake, simple. You and I do it every day, for ourselves and for our employers. Or is it hard? Hard because those very cuts involve the government employees, the same ones that will have to propose and implement the cuts. Maybe I should have said impossible. Impossible because it involves the programs of entitlement and big government. The same folks who spent a whole year trying to add health care to be a government job will have to cut these programs. Simple for a private sector company to do. The government paints them to be the bad guy. The bad guy will last longer than the government. The government currently has the upper hand because it is out of control. Destruction is the ending.

Is there a way back, can we break this unsustainable path? We are here and it is now.  Is there a way back?