Eureka! California Earthquake Representative of Nation: One Disaster Away From Total Anarchy
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(Authored by Doug Mitchell, Founder of Operation Red State, native Southern Californian, and 33 year CA resident)
California is not the most financially stable state in the Union these days with beyond critical problems. To add insult to fiscal crisis, they had a whopper of an earthquake up in Northern California yesterday afternoon. 6.5 magnitude. That will mean something to you if you’re from earthquake country like me. Those rattle your nerves and clears shelves of food, water, and camping supplies. Thousands lost power, minor damage abounds, and nerves are frayed. The odds of having a catastrophic quake in California sooner rather than later are substantial.
So what if the big one strikes San Francisco or Los Angeles? What bailouts are left to give? What “State of emergency and Federal aid” are waiting for us? What if we get even a moderately destructive hurricane in the Gulf or the South continues to freeze due to the “Global warming instituted by George H.W. Bush”? There ARE NO BAILOUTS LEFT.
Our nation and its 50 states are living like that family who is one “Big failure away from total economic devastation” with massive amounts of debt to go along with the new SUV, the boat, and John Deere Lawn Tractor. So many people are one paycheck or one “Uh oh” from complete collapse…and so is our nation.
For these reasons, I implore you the candidate, you the activist, you the state party, you the casual and frustrated reader…yes even you the liberal…to look deep into your soul in the upcoming elections. Understand that the Peanuts style “WONK WONK” you hear from so many in office today must not stand. You must vote for leadership that will stand on principle and do what’s right. How many in Congress now can you say that you trust to keep our Union together if we had say 5 multi-hundred billion dollar catastrophes in 2010? It’s not about “How much they bring home to the district” anymore. These elections are about our country and its survival.
Like you…with each governmental tentacle extended in private industry under the guise of bailouts and too big to fail whales, I wonder how many more disasters we’ll be able to absorb before we confront the reality put off so diligently our “leaders”. When will so much power and economic girth reside in Washington that we see nationalization and police powers by fiat? If you think I’ve joined the wacko squad just think through what we’re facing now as a nation and who is “providing everything we all need to make it all better”.
If an even moderately damaging earthquake strikes California in a major population center and during rush hour, who will Schwarzenegger call first? Will he call our President and ask for “Money” to pay the people who will rebuild the state? Or, will he call upon the citizenry to band together, take care of each other, and sustain themselves. Will he have a choice?
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3 Comments on Eureka! California Earthquake Representative of Nation: One Disaster Away From Total Anarchy
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Claire Celsi on
Sun, 10th Jan 2010 11:43 am
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Doug Mitchell on
Sun, 10th Jan 2010 11:51 am
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Stupid Spending | Funk for Congress on
Tue, 12th Jan 2010 7:42 am
I share your sense of dread as to what is happening to our country. Unfortunately, in most cases, the bad guys and bad decisions can be tied directly to the influence of large corporations in our government.
The core functioning of the government is under the influence of lobbyists who wield remarkable influence over elected officials. Since those running for office actually spend more of their time raising money than studying issues and best practices, the only solution I see is campaign finance reform that disallows large contributions to political parties, sponsorship of venues and events for large party gatherings, etc.
The government should allow candidates for office to run no more than 3 months before the election, spend no more than $50,000 in paid media, no more than 30,000 in direct mail and limit the number of paid campaign staff. Each candidate should be given access to the same public forum to air their views and equal time on TV and radio before the primary. Then, the candidates who are left should debate twice and the video and transcripts be made available online.
The endless fundraising cycle is the only thing standing between us and the democracy we desire. We have to make this issue a national issue.
Until this cycle is broken, elected officials have no other recourse than to cow-tow to the gigantic organizations that allow them to live another day.
I don’t like the process either Claire. How can we overcome the free speech implications, etc? Thanks for the comment! Glad your reading.
[...] like many Americans, the US government is one big disaster away from economic failure. Doug Mitchell of OperationRedState.com wrote this regarding the earthquake experienced in Northern California a couple of days ago: [...]
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