America's Last Christmas

  One of my favorite places to  eat if we're talking about fast food has to be McDonald's. Do you remember when the sign would tell you just how many Big Mac's had been sold? The sign would say for example over 20 billion sold, and a few years later it would  read over a hundred billion  sold   Finally, McDonald's just had to have their sign read billions and billions sold because frankly, they just couldn't keep count anymore
  Well that's kind of the way I think America's national debt has become. Here is what I mean.  Remember how impressed Americans used to be when something cost a million dollars? I realize that is still a lot of money, in fact, it's more money then the average person will ever see. The fact is though, we have billionaire's in this county and  more and more of them are popping up in this country everyday. Now in America, when we hear that something cost a million dollars, most Americans, barely  pause to think about it. Remember the first time you heard that our government had spent several billions of dollars on one thing or another? When we first heard it, we were shocked or maybe even impressed, that our government could spend that kind of money. These days, America, spends  450 billion dollars a  day just to pay the daily interest on our national  debt. and a billion dollars seems like almost nothing. America's debt reached One trillion dollars around 1981 or so and America was in shock at first but now thirty years later America is fifteen trillion dollars in debt.  I have heard if you could stack 1000 dollar bills, on top of each other when your stack was 67 miles high you would have one trillion dollars let's do some more math if one trillion is 1000 dollar bills stack 67 miles high that means that 15 trillion dollars  is 67 miles times 15  or a tack of  1000 dollar bills 1005 miles high. Guess what? Now,  the government,  has introduced a new money denomination  and that new money denomination is  quadrillion but not to worry, by time America has to use this money denomination to describe the national debt , America as a country will no longer exist.
  Why did I title this blog America's last Christmas? I did it to take this point , The government for too long now has played the roll of this nation's economic Santa Clause, and if we as Americans don't tell the leaders in our government that they need to stop playing Santa Clause, and make the economic sacrificial government spending cuts that must be made for America's economic survival, then one day we as a nation will be so deep in debt the dollar will crash. America will have no more money for anything, no defense, no welfare , no social security, no food stamps, no unemployment benefits, nothing! America at that point will celebrate her last Christmas, and then just maybe Americans will remember that this country, just like the real meaning of Christmas, has never really been about what we can get out of our country but rather what each one of us is willing to stand and work together and sacrifice to give back to our country. after all, it is still, more blessed to give than to receive. as always my friends, these thoughts remain, just, some words, to think on.