Kleptocratic Autocracy

I wish I had thought of the title phrase myself. It describes America so well, especially now, particularly in the three years of ObamaNation. But no, the phrase comes from other ordinary Amercans like myself, who are tired of having our lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods stolen by government.

From the dictionary
Now, for definitions: Stealing from Peter to pay Paul is what kleptomaniacs do. Peter is the people; Paul is represented by entitlement receivers. Absolute government run by one person is obvious as the autocracy we live in right now.

That same government tells all of us lies while it steals from some of us (they call it spending) to pay some of you. You know who the "yous" are: those who receive checks, jobs, or benefits from the government, including the 50% of Americans who pay no tax at all. Another name for it is a federalized Ponzi scheme, with debt sky high, still rising, to be paid for by our children, their children, and their children.

Raise debt a lot, cut spending a little, if at all

The recent debt ceiling debacle made next to nobody happy nor stopped the scheming. Have you yet to see the terms of that so-called compromise agreement stated clearly in one place? As Ms. Pelosi declared on other legislation, "we'll have to pass it to see what's in it."

Well, we're in it right now. We're waiting to see spending cuts happen soon, if they happen at all. Folks are dubious. I ache at the thought of cuts to our military while spending for bigger and bigger government continues. And it will, no matter what's in that bill.

Precipitous drop

As a sign that nobody out there liked the so-called compromise that much, the market fell a stunning 512 points today. I predicted a crash for the first of the year. Okay, so I was off by a couple of months.

The trend has been down since you-know-who took office. Housing was and still is in the crapper, with the worst still to come. Gold--as a valued commodity--is way up for the year, but way down today too. Oil--as the fuel for economic growth--is down, but we still can't get it out of our own ground.

If anybody were still working in those vacant city skyscrapers, people might be jumping out of them today. But Americans, for the large part, have been lulled into a la la land of oblivion by the kleptocratic autocracy. The people who create wealth will continue to support those who don't. Everything will work out at some point, we say.

But an unrecognized fallacy remains: The kleptocratic autocracy, by destroying business, destroys the creation of value and wealth -- that same wealth that the autocracy runs on. What will it run on when the wealth runs out?

It's a crime

In others words, the current condition is unsustainable. It's broken and broke.

Ponder that.

Then tweet the President and say you're tired of him picking your pocket. Because there's getting to be nothing left in it for him to take.