Because it's there the U.S. government hasn't so far found a way to ford the fiscal cliff regardless of presentation as a vertical or horizontal challenge. A cliff viewed from below is a wall to climb while viewed from above it's the mouse in the elephant's tent. When the nation was on the way up it overcome challenges, and while a decadent establishment is on the top (establishments implicitly become supremist) it is paralyzed with fear of budget cutting vertigo.
The military cost in a personnel pay bloated era is a good example. It could easily use a 25% budget reduction and become more efficient. Since L.B.J. and Brown and Root developed a cozy relationship Texas and military contractors have profited from protracted, expensive foreign wars. In times past though the soldiers weren't paid much unlike today.
The Department of Defense should not deploy the Army or Marines to bizarre locales with dubious national interests. They should be reduced in size and train to fight one large conventional war against China in a decade or two, as they are the realistically single substantial possible general war foe. The United States cannot afford to splurge on a bloated military budget now when it isn't necessary and be broke and incapable of fighting in the future when it may be necessary.
Money diverted from development of the U.S. economy and scientific research to pay for an overpaid military and legions of military contractors weakens the United States in its global economic competition and status. Since so many of the establishment (implicitly supremist) have deemed the United States to be a declining economic power comparatively they seem unconcerned about wasting tax dollars on a presently badly deployed military instead of developing the U.S. economy toward a new era of global high efficiency, advanced tech ecospheric syntegrity with liberty and justice for all citizens.
The Marines should be reduced in size by 25%, as should the Army. The Air Force research budget should increase and the Navy should develop a next generation of ships able to survive the plethora of drone mach assault platforms below and above the surface. A new corps of special force fighters numbering 50,000 should be created as a rapid deployment force able to work anywhere globally needed very swiftly to relieve the oppressed such as they are until a U.N., African, Asian or other interim occupation force arrives for sedentary security.
The vertigo of the budget cutters at cutters seems to preclude the reorganization of anything so that it would increase efficiency. Soldiers can receive lower pay as they used to yet they deserve far better veterans health and hiring services after service. Obamacare should have expanded the V.A. hospital system and included all veterans as well as the poor of the nation for free, quality reliable service.
The poor have 50 state bureaucracies to go through for 'insurance' as they travel around the nation seeking work to deny they are have a domicile in Fargo, Houston or Anchorage where they might seasonally look for a job. Establishments are implicitly supremist and badly serve veterans not uncommonly after their active useful value date stamp term of service has expired.
Proportional tax incentives should be created to employers to hire those without a job for the greatest length of time. Keeping people working and off relief will be necessary in the new economic era ahead. Keeping soldier out of protracted unnecessary troop deployments such as Afghanistan and Iraq will reduce public medical costs for generations as well as public payments to military contractors for luxury deserts and foods in restaurants former palaces of dictators. A little good intelligence is a leavening needed in political leadership to use a military effectively. Quality C.I.A. field operatives are one method of learning of terrorist planners from madrassas to laboratories. Like the chess pieces on a board politicians have the choice to use knights to play a good game or for cracking nuts.
The chiaroscuro political landscape of the nation in a twilight era of alleged decline suffused with a thousand points of starlight and more receding to the beginning of light in the Universe presents the paradox of sweet and sour pork politics, unused rice dishes of invention and hopes for a new ecospheric renewal economic foundation with low entropy, conservation of endangered species, wild habitat and full employment without global warming.
Plainly the Congress is not up to the challenge of fording the fiscal cliff or of finding a way to overcome their own contentedness in material wealth and comfort, security and power. Legislating more of the same fiduciary input with clever legalistic tricks is the congressionally preferred method even if that way leads to more national comparative decline as if taking a stroll on moss covered boulders in rain and cold wind downhill was less difficult.
The uncompetitive broadcast media has saturated the nation with fantasy politics and fantasy economic reality. Chess at chess.com is competitive-the broadcast media is not. Like the Congress it is used to being a silly elite lecturing the public who are not peers of power in any way. That conditioning by the media is permitted by the congress that could reform it if they could reform anything positively and as during the Clinton era it just keeps getting dumber and dumber with concentrated wealth.
A nation or civilization on the rise finds new ways to overcome challenges that a contented society at the top does not. They may be concerned with standing tall and looking good while they crumble as social cookies baked by hostesses of the legendary past of which the recipe is lost. Tomorrow's economic leadership twits can bring a new message to the masses that a ford beyond the terrible cliff at the edge of the world has been found. Those visionaries work simply in faith to transcend the temporal challenges by ignoring them and hoping they go away, they work tirelessly to overcome the perennially emerging establishment of new supremacies in opposition to a healthy, recovering ecosphere, full employment and freedom of religion trusting that God will bring the end game on his own schedule. It is the role of the Congress to find ways to generate a balanced budget and full employment without public debt while the citizens wait on God and take care of the planet that is his footstool, as it were.
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