Alright, let's watch this video if noone else will.
He starts off with some bad history. Rome had many serious military challengers throughout its entire life. Apocalyptic "moral decay" is pop history, and we owe God damn Edward Gibbon a kick in the ass for that one. The Empire lasted 360 years after the reign of Gaius "They Literally Made a Porno About Me" Caesar, for
's sake. It wasn't queers and deficit spending that killed Rome (which isn't to say that their economy wasn't
ed up, but hey, that's what happens when you rely so heavily on plunder and tribute from subjugated nations), but constant in-fighting (political and military), environmental degradation, invasion, and uncontrollable disease. If your Dr. Carson wants to talk about the dangers of aquifer depletion or evolving bacterial resistance to antibiotics, I'm all
in' ears. But those particular lessons aren't the ones bouncing around the echo chamber these days.
"I heart Jesus!" Clapclapclapclap ha-god-damn-ha.
Okay, the debt part. Awesome. Carson's "parable" is a paraphrase of some dumb image that's been floating around Facebook for over a year now. Or maybe he's the source of it. It's bullshit either way. A government is not a household and his parable is awful. The government controls and can print its own currency; a family can not. A government can - when it's actually functioning - raise and lower taxes as needs be; a family can not change its own salary. Goverment spending is skewed heavily towards investment spending; a household's spending is skewed more towards consumption. It is disingenuous as a mother
to talk about a child's allowance like it's the equivalent to medicare. "Oh, just cut spending!" doesn't sound so appealing when, instead of dropping your Netflix subscription and cutting back on the Starbucks, you're weighing Grandma's heart pills against the gas you need to get to your job.
And perhaps the most important part? No family can go to a bank and get interest rates
below inflation levels. The money America is borrowing effectively has
negative interest rates on it. Y'all are being
paid to take money! And y'know why? Because as far as everyone's concerned, America is
safe. It's the safest God damn bet in the world.
Now he's going on about some super heretical shit that would make the nun that taught me when I was a kid angrier than every curse and blasphemy I've uttered so far. Shove your Prosperity Gospel into the eye of a needle, doctor.
In conclusion, ignore me because I sound angry.