Rush To Fatalism
By Daryl L. Hunter - 2000

The fleeting phenomena of support for John McCain had a recurring theme, the need to reduce or eliminate the National Debt and pork barrel spending. John McCain has recently committed character suicide thereby to our relief, ruining his chances for the Presidency. However, there remain a great many Republicans that are still concerned about the National Debt and pork barrel spending. The Republican leadership should do something about this fuel lying around that insurgent third party politicians and Republicans that have lost their compass keep gathering up and using against us.

Advocating, taking our tax cuts, as that is all we can realistically hope for. Rush's dismissing the need to pursue this issue that consumes 36% of our Gross Domestic Product (36% of our tax dollars), trumping the future possibility of a 36% reduction of budgetary needs seems fatalistic and un-characteristically pessimistic of Rush.

I agree that today all money that shows up in Washington gets spent, squandered or stolen. However, as an optimist I believe that there is a solution to this problem. I can only assume Rush has taken this course because of Conservatisim's Dogma pertaining to tax cuts as being conservative and everything else is not. I, being dogmatic about nothing, believe that Conservatism is a conservative thought process not an established categorical check list. Every four years there will be an opportunistic visionary or flake that will run for President on the issue of National Debt reduction, and their message will again have disruptive appeal. Although we don't have the will to address and fix this problem in a pragmatic way, it will continue to be a burr under our saddle threatening Republican political well being as long as this issue exists. Lets just address it, fix it, then be done with it.

I will enjoy the tax cut I receive during the future Bush administration, however my enjoyment will be tempered by our fatalistic vision of a future of idiotic, unending, exponential growth of our National Debt. The wasted tax dollars our progeny will spend servicing our selfishness, due to our unwillingness to legislate honest on budget and off budget National Debt reduction and elimination will be our legacy as well as our national shame. This however will bother us none as we will be as dead as our founding fathers.

Our legacy may be the one that ends the legacy of our Founding Fathers.