In 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In that poem, a ship set sail, and was followed by an albatross, which is the world’s largest flying bird. It was always considered good luck to have an albatross following a ship. In the poem, the mariner, used a crossbow to shoot and kill the albatross, which was an automatic bad luck sign. That ship had lots of bad luck! In Mary Shelly’s 1818 story of Frankenstein, the phrase, “I shall kill no albatross” occurs, which had the same meaning as Coleridge’s poem. Since then, in all sorts of TV shows, movies, novels, and songs, an albatross around one’s neck, has been danger, bad luck, trouble, catastrophe, or something horrible. It got started in 1798, and has continued ever since.
American taxpayers have an albatross around their collective necks, and like the poem, it has been bad luck. The bad luck, trouble, disaster, and catastrophe around our necks, like a huge albatross, which we are unable to get rid of, consists of huge government, bureaucracy, welfare recipients, choking taxes and unpayable deficits, to name a few. Our collective albatrosses around our necks, are strangling us, and making our lives miserable. Our taxes are insane, and thousands every week are fraudulently claiming disability on Social Security, so they can have a free ride on our coattails.
Welfare mothers copulate like barnyard animals, and reproduce endlessly on our tab, while we have long ago achieved ZPG, or ’zero population growth.’ In another 25 years, white Americans will be in the minority, and be outvoted, if it doesn’t happen in 40 days this year. The long term, committed indebtedness of the government, approaches $200 trillion, an amount totally incomprehensible to even a trained economist. A billion dollars is even beyond most minds to comprehend, and the government borrows that much every few minutes.
If you had a credit card with unlimited ceiling, and the interest could be placed on the card each month, so it never had to be paid, wouldn’t that be a nice thing to carry with you? Think of all the shopping, new car buying, travel, clothes purchases, and spending you could do, if you never had to worry about credit limits or repayment. Whoopee! That situation is exactly what the Congress and President enjoy, and take full advantage of, every minute of every day. They have no limits on spending, and under Obama, the debt has gone up $5.5 trillion unpayable dollars, in less than four years. Obama is the largest albatross around our necks.
Let’s assume you have that credit card with no limits on purchases, but you could pay it with Monopoly money, which could be printed without limit to pay any purchase you may make or debt you may incur. You’d spend limitlessly, and run up huge debts, with no consequence.. Same deal in D.C. Congress spends, and Obama signs off on the spending. We have reached the point at which we are close to being outvoted by the population which has benefitted from the unlimited spending, with no repayment worries. Mitt spoke of 47% on the dole, and Social Security recipients came unglued, and rightfully so, but there are still hundreds of millions on the dole, that are not Social Security beneficiaries. So many, that their numbers are indicated by the fact that Mitt and Obama seem to be tied in the polls. Shocking? You bet, and if Mitt loses, it’s all over, in my opinion. We will have been outvoted, and the welfare, endless spending, thoughtless, albatross class, will have choked off a once proud, independent, free loving, prosperous nation.
Now we have Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico as the Libertarian Candidate, who knows about our albatross. Like Ron Paul, Gary Johnson won’t win, and Mitt isn’t most Republicans’ idea of an excellent candidate, but if Americans can vote control of the Senate, keep the House, and if Mitt will stop being a total wimp, there may be hope. The debates, beginning Wednesday, may be a turning point in the polls. Mitt promises jobs and reducing debt, while Obama promises to stay on his current path of more taxes and more printing press dollars. Surely there are some thinking people out there.