Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt? Part 1 of 5: The problem.
This essay is intended to excite people to attend Responsible Liberty Day at Bluebonnet Library so as to consider collaborating for an achievable better future in Baton Rouge and beyond.
Short-term satisfaction. The USA’s debt stands at $22.4 trillion and is climbing. At 4 thousand newborns a year, that’s $5.5 million per newborn. Add to that the burden for illegal residents, and the fiscal injustice to infants is staggering.
The $5.5 million burden to newborn and immigrant citizens could be reduced by ending deficit spending and lessening illegal entry into the USA. The debt-legacy for grandchildren could be ended by paying the lenders the principle in addition to the interest due, now $366 billion/year.
A civic citizen (citizen for responsible liberty rather than selective imposition) is constrained to ask, who is driving this fiscal disaster for the USA’s grandchildren? Options include whatever-government-is, whatever-God-is, and whatever-citizen-is. Only some of “we, the people” are of We the People of the United States. Others are dissidents, aliens, and traitors.
A new, cogent view of the U.S. preamble’s 1787 proposition expresses to individual citizens the choice to take responsibility for human liberty---to be of We the People of the United States under the U.S. preamble’s proposition. If a supermajority, perhaps more than 2/3 of fellow citizens adopted this view of the U.S. preamble’s proposition there could develop the collective, personal civic discipline to reduce then eliminate the debt.
By encouraging responsible human liberty, a better U.S. future may be achieved.
Photo: Debt clock.
Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt? Part 2 of 5: A solution: civic integrity notwithstanding religious beliefs.
According to the U.S. preamble, civically disciplined citizens hold their government accountable without debating whatever-God-is.
Are you concerned that 2019’s families struggle for general welfare if not prosperity while increasing $22.4 trillion debt to the next generation of families? In other words, does it bother you that many parents are indebting their children? Do you realize and accept that your family may be empowering the lenders to collect from your children’s family and perhaps pass a balance to your grandchildren? In other words, today’s families may be enslaving their children’s families. Which generation will accept the debt and repay the principal in order to assure freedom-from oppression to living citizens? Without fiscal oppression the family’s grandchildren may take the human liberty-to pursue the happiness they want rather than succumb to the dictates of others, perhaps the lenders.
The U.S. preamble’s proposition is to living citizens, both now and in the future (posterity). Collaborating for the continuum of living citizens---ourselves and our posterity---equates to civic integrity.
Photo: Integrity
Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt? Part 3 of 5: Debt policy.
We the People of the United States is not holding government accountable. Consider USA policy on debt as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). (With debt of $22.4 trillion and 105% GDP ratio, current GDP is $21.3 trillion.)
Fellow citizens may observe step changes in debt policy at https://www.macrotrends.net/1381/debt-to-gdp-ratio-historical-chart'>Debt to GDP Ratio Historical Chart. We observe 40% debt ($1.6 trillion from other references) in 1984, a dip during the period 1995 until 2008, rapid rise to 64% in late 2008, to 105% in 2016, and flat through 2019. In other words, policy by whatever-government-is increased the federal debt of $1.6 trillion in 1984 to $22.4 trillion today.
Maybe fate is to blame? Events and decisions affecting federal policy are listed at https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287. A citizen might select events to make the case that whatever-government-is merely reacts to whatever-God-is---for example, the dust-bowl drought of 1931-38. Events related to global conflict are resolved on a policy of strength more than self-defense, and attributing military strength to whatever-God-is seems a stretch. In other words, a strong military discourages foreign powers from attacking the USA. Civic citizens prefer strength with no soldiers in harms way more than defense with loss and injury.
Most fellow citizens want mutual, comprehensive safety and security. Does that imply that both whatever-government-is and whatever-God-is react to whatever-citizen-is? Is the strength of a people (nation) a consequence of the strengths of each individual citizen?
Photo: debt/GDP history
Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt? Part 4 of 5: A view from the U.S. preamble.
We observe that the U.S. preamble’s proposition to individuals is: Civic citizens collaborate for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens.
If this (or a better equivalent) is the actually real U.S. preamble-proposition, then only the civically self-disciplined citizen can hold government accountable. In other words, the citizen who thinks crime pays or that his world view rises above the U.S. preamble’s proposition has no standing to complain about U.S. governance or statutory law. Many fellow citizens prefer their world view to the U.S. preamble’s proposition: responsible human liberty.
If our observations are actual to the U.S. preamble’s proposition, “citizen” means collaborator for responsible human liberty; in other words, civic self-discipline. Further, chronologically adult citizens who are not developing civic integrity are psychologically adolescent. (See H.S. Overstreet, “The Mature Mind,” 1949---perhaps to take 2019 heat off my opinion.)
Fiscal satisfaction to 2019 families that is funded by growing debt to children’s families conflicts with “liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” This actual reality illustrates what is meant by “the-objective-truth.” No human construct can show the feasibility of a policy for continually growing annual debt. The parent who amasses enough wealth to cover each personal newborn’s $5.6 million share of the growing debt may feel secure for now. The-objective-truth exists and the human’s task is to discover and use it for individual benefit. With more citizens using the U.S. preamble’s proposition with the-objective-truth, a better future may be achieved.
Does it seem that fiscally satisfied adults are responsible for the accountability of both whatever-government-is and whatever-God-is? It seems lack of fiscal control for opportunity to the future families of the adult’s children and beyond---posterity---rests with We the People of the United States---citizens for statutory justice under the U.S. preamble.
Photo: The Mature Mind
Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt? Part 5 of 5: Responsible Liberty Day.
An achievable better future is possible if citizens can develop We the People of the United States according to the U.S. preamble’s proposition and the-objective-truth.
On June 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM at Bluebonnet Library, Baton Rouge, we will celebrate perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day. (See the event announcement and the “Press Release” on this Facebook Page.) We hope everyone who learns about the event will either attend or contact us to arrange a new venue and time for another event. More importantly, we hope participants will arrive with the intentions to consider whether or not they want to collaborate to develop A Civic People of the United States, a grass-roots, web-based practice rather than a revenue-generating non-profit.
Just as the fellow citizen who wants personal preferences in food, attire, and quarters may earn responsibility for the choices, the person who wants responsible human liberty may self-discipline so as to hold government accountable.
This essay, “Who is enslaving U.S. grandchildren to debt?” is intended to express the long-term intentions of A Civic People. Our two strengths are the U.S. preamble’s proposition for the continuum of living people and discovery and development of the-objective-truth. We hope this essay inspires fellow citizens to attend and collaborate for an achievable better future.
Photo: Celebrate and establish.
Published starting June 12, 2019 on our Facebook Page.
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