The Repo Man is Coming!

If you or I as individuals go into debt, you will suffer the consequences. But governments play by different rules than you and me. Governments often use a variety of tricks to spend more money that taxpayers have given them to spend. The U.S. government is the biggest spender in the world unchallenged.

I am not an economist nor do I pretend to understand the economy, national or international. I know how to balance your own checkbook. If I spend more money than me, I'll go into debt. But I can not keep spending more money than I came in. If I did continue to outspend my income, then my rating would suffer. I would soon be forced to cut and find ways to live within my means, because I would cut off my creditors.

Apparently the same rules do not apply to nations, not the least powerful nations.

If you have a dispute with your neighbor or a stranger does not have the legal right to declare war on him and invade his house and kill him and his family. You can not just come up with some excuse, as he thought he had weapons in his house, so he had to strike at night in a preemptive strike. Then, if you find that he had weapons in his house, you can try to spin a new story about how you had to do "for children", because your neighbor was abusing her children, or some other bizarre tale invented to justify the because his family massacred as they slept in the middle of the night. After he is dead, will be the one telling the story. You can demonize. You will get the last word since he will no longer be able to tell his side. You can make up any story you like.

If an individual has done such a thing, would be killed or thrown in jail at least. But governments seem to be able to do these things like that on a national scale and get away with, and even declare themselves as "liberators and heroes." Actually you might want to go into your neighbor's house, in the middle of the night if they actually had a gun. But imagine that we already had someone in his house to search for weapons and we're pretty sure that it is disarmed, then there would be so dangerous to kick in his door with guns in their hands as rescue his abused children. It is not our fault if her children were caught in the crossfire. He could not resist! It was entirely his fault. Those damned terrorists are always hidden behind the kids!

America is not doing so well in international public relations these days. There seems to be stuck in the role of "world policeman" and aggressors in the international war on terrorism, whether we like it or not. Since we are already in this deep you can not go back. It would seem logical to continue to do what America does best, that the world is saying what to do and use force to ensure that they do as we say, not as we do.

Perhaps this is the answer to overspending in the United States. It 'difficult to chop and learn to live with less. We used to enjoy the good life and easy money. America has the best army in the world. America has a dominant technological advantage over all other nations. America can easily produce the world's best quality military equipment and ammunition. No nation in the world can come close to matching American military prowess. Why give up a lifestyle we are accustomed to?

While we're at, we can do what other great nations have done throughout history. We have the military might to take what we need. Also returning to the personal and individual level, you or I can not just take what we want from others, but governments can strong.

Here is a formula that would keep America to face the music and live within their financial means.

Step 1. Come up with an excuse to invade a country that has the wealth can be easily removed, such as oil, gold reserves, or some other easily convertible precious goods or property.

Step 2. The rest of the world will not fall for the propaganda of the United States anyway, so they never mind. Focus propaganda on the American public. Selling the "proletariat" on the idea that this invasion was a good thing. Waving flags and promote nationalism. Labeling dissenters as "anti-American" or sympathizers, cowards and terrorists.

Step 3. Brutalize people in the country invaded traumatically. This is equivalent to breaking bones or other gangsters brutalizing someone who does not pay what the mob demands. Send the message that we do not mess around. Mess with the bull, you get the horn. When gangsters do that, it's a bad thing, but it is perfectly acceptable behavior for governments, as long as they have the power to stay on top.

Step 4. Plundering the country invaded. Cripple and hobbled the country so it will be many years before they can gather the strength to be a threat to America again. It would also be a good idea to create a situation where civil war is inevitable to further destroy what little is left that is not already destroyed. Devastate their economy and install a puppet government to ensure that people despise the civil war. Leave a broken country, a demoralized population, and planting the seeds for the further destruction after we finished looting their country. Engaging in a "scorched earth" policy.

Step 5. On the way home-front, keep the propaganda and keep spinning the story. If propaganda does not seem to be adequately suppress criticism, then establish a "Department of the Ministry of Truth" Orwellian style agency to eliminate dissent. Give this new agency as benign as a "Homeland Security". Create a network of secret prisons. Spy on the American people for signs of "thoughtcrime". Ensure that no one is being "un-American." Change the laws so that the dissidents do not have legal rights, and can simply disappear and never be heard from again if they are suspected of any anti-American activities, such as openly supporting an independent candidate. Keep waving the red white and blue. Continually reinforce the mantra that "war is peace", "Ignorance is strength" and "Freedom is slavery." And throw in a new "They hate us for our freedoms."

Step 6. Begin production trials to support attacking another country. Before you hit the next victim (opps, I meant the next "terrorist nation") with smart bombs, hit them in the portfolio. Declaring their government and institutions of terrorist entities. Catch all their international activities, we can get our hands. Freeze all their bank accounts and try to bring the "terrorists" to take the first punch. Then it might be an easier sell to get the American public to support going to war again. Then repeat the cycle of steps one through six again and again.

If the same actions were taken by gangsters we should use terms such as extortion, protection rackets, armed robbery, home invasion, theft and murder. But none of these bad conditions apply to the nations, especially nations strong. Using "The Newspeak Dictionary" we call it liberation or nation building. The Americans have the power to do virtually whatever they want, and call themselves heroes, while it is in it for good measure.

The rest of the world I do not like, but I'm just going to learn to resign. Waging war is not cheap, but paying our bills is not even affordable. The trick is to stay on top of the heap king of the mountain. America is already the world's pariah. We are already too deep to turn back. If we now soft, there will be war crimes and we will be the ones on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The international tribunals for war crimes and prosecutors will be involved if we are stupid enough to put down their weapons now. We have a tiger by the tail. Chairman Mao's famous quote was "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun". America has the power. The war on terrorism could go on for generations. Americans can continue to live on top of pork. No need to live within our means. What can the repo-man?