The Spending Addict
The heroin addict’s road to recovery is a nightmarish process.
But in the beginning, the path to addiction is oh so very easy. A pusher tempts the naive with a “free magic elixir” that will “make you feel so good”! And the drug really does deliver a pleasure overload, even ecstasy – at first. For the drug dealer, hooking a meal ticket is the easy part. The trick is find one with the resources to continue paying! But the promises of the pusher’s poison are a dark and dangerous lie!
One of the addict’s first revelations will be that, as his reliance upon the drug deepens, it will require higher and higher amounts to achieve ever-diminishing highs. Soon the good feelings from the drug will disappear completely. Yet the deadly drug worm will burrow deep into his soul until it completely owns him. Without the drug, he cannot even minimally function; starving the deadly worm brings only depression and despair – and the racking pain of withdrawal.
The dependency deepens as the drug tightens its grip. He must have the drug! Soon, to get it, the addict will throw away all dignity and self respect. Funding his habit will consume his family’s finances. He will beg, borrow, and steal even from close friends to pay for his addiction. He will take out high-interest loans that he can never repay. Jobs, friends, family, freedom, and even his hope for the future will be sacrificed upon the alter of the demon worm. The addict will do anything to get the drug! He has set his feet upon a road of despair; one leading to poverty, hopelessness, and premature death. And he will not be denied.
To rescue an addict from this fate is an equally traumatic and dangerous process. It often fails. But one thing is sure; if the intervention is not attempted, the victim will perish.
Like the heroin addict, Uncle Sam’s addiction is killing him. But our Sam’s addiction is to out-of-control spending. In the 21st century, federal spending has exceeded all tax receipts, and is accelerating. In 2011 alone, sustaining this spending level will require new unfunded debt of over $1.6 trillion dollars! That’s $1.6 thousand-billion dollars in a single year!
To satisfy their insatiable appetite for spending, politicians seek broader powers to tax and intrude upon the lives of our citizenry. They must increase “revenues”. The corporations that once powered our economy are targeted, and many are compelled to flee to more business-friendly shores. For the sake of “fairness”, the elderly are pitted against the young, the “rich” against the poor, and the unproductive against the productive. The spending addicts are driving our country to tear itself apart; our once-great nation is being consumed from the inside-out. The longer that this spending addiction is left unchecked, the more perilous the cure becomes. If our country is to avoid the dark road of despair, then it is time to say “enough is enough”.
I’m skeptical that the failure to raise the debt ceiling will trigger a default on the country’s loans, nor a failure to fund social security checks for seniors. I find it more credible that these are the lies of a wretched, pitiful addict who will do anything to keep his drug from being cut off!
One claim is true, however. Just as it is excruciatingly hard for a heroin addict to dry-out and be cured, curing this spending addiction will be a long and painful process. But it is also true that we cannot fix this problem until we confront it! If not now, then when? We must cure Uncle Sam’s spending addiction!
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