{"id":2154144,"date":"2024-01-19T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-lie-americans-tell-ourselves\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T23:16:51","slug":"the-big-lie-americans-tell-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-lie-americans-tell-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans deceive themselves with a colossal falsehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-big-lie-americans-tell-ourselves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2154144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Big \u2062Lie \u2062Americans Tell Themselves<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2062 is a big lie \u200dthat we in \u2064the United States keep telling ourselves. \u200dIt is\u200c particularly \u200ctrue on the political \u200bRight, but \u2064it\u2019s true across \u200cthe board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the\u200b lie: We want our government to be fiscally \u200cresponsible \u200din some way, shape, or form. It\u2019s\u2064 clearly a lie because we keep electing politicians who eschew\u2064 being fiscally \u2063responsible in any\u2063 way, shape, or \u200bform,\u2062 regardless of who runs the\u2064 government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The spending\u200b keeps going in one \u200bdirection \u2014 and that direction is up. There\u2019s a reason we are running a\u2063 $34 trillion\u2062 national debt\u200b at this point in time, and it is likely that that more debt is going to \u200dcontinue\u200b to accrue because nobody takes this problem particularly seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they\u2019re not going to take that\u2064 problem seriously until \u200cwe \u200drun smack into a \u200bwall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is \u200ctypically \u2062how fiscal crises work: A country spends too much money. \u2063They\u2019re unable\u200b to rein it back in because there are too\u2063 many people who\u2064 become dependent on that\u2063 spending of the money.\u200d Then, instead\u200d of creating some \u200bsort of plan to get out \u2064of debt, people just keep running up those debts, keep running up those deficits until the time comes we have to\u200d take extremely harsh \u2064remediating action.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>WATCH: The Ben Shapiro \u200dShow<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is the\u2063 high likelihood\u2063 here.\u2062 Why\u2063 do I say\u200c this? Because yesterday \u2062the \u2064House Republicans, as well as \u2063the House\u2063 Democrats, overwhelmingly passed yet <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">another <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">continuing resolution. And \u200dthis is \u200bthe way we \u200cnow fund the government because we\u2019re not able to actually have serious negotiations on any department level with \u200cregard to spending; we\u2019re \u200cnot able to negotiate over how much should be spent on defense or\u200d how \u200bmuch should be \u2064spent\u2062 on education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, we\u200b wrap everything up into \u2062a \u200bball and when we can\u2019t get approval on a year-long budget,\u200b we \u200dgo to continuing resolutions, which \u2062are\u200c the\u200b short-form \u200bbudgets that continue the government spending. And we keep the drain running and the trend will run\u2063 until the train\u2064 runs completely off those tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And by the way, the people who are telling you that the continuing resolution should have \u200bbeen pushed aside \u200din favor of something harsher, in \u200cfavor of a government shutdown, \u2063or \u2062in favor of a harder\u2063 bargaining position\u200d with Joe Biden, \u200care fibbing\u2064 to\u200b you about the incentive structure. Unless you have a unified Republican control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, you\u2019re\u200b not going to get the kind of\u2063 spending cuts \u2064that make \u200dit worthwhile\u2062 for you to risk your seats. Because I\u2019ll tell you what\u200c happens: You do a \u200bgovernment shutdown, you\u2019re going to\u2063 end\u200d up passing a continuing\u2062 resolution anyway, and a bunch more people are going to lose\u2062 their seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The easiest thing in Congress is to get lost in a \u200bcrowd, to simply side with an overwhelming majority of people\u2062 who say\u2064 status quo, \u201cLet\u2019s just keep doing what \u2064it \u2063is that we are\u200d doing right \u200cnow.\u201d\u00a0 Internal \u200cRepublican rules prevent any \u2064Republican from moving forward with a bill that does not have at least\u200b the support of\u200b the majority of Republicans. So it came very\u200d close to the wire on \u200cthis particular \u2064bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas \u2063Republican Chip Roy, who does take\u200c the problem of spending seriously, was blasting\u200c everybody Right, Left, and Center about\u200d not\u200d only the spending, but also the fact that nobody in Congress seems to want to solve serious problems anymore.\u200b He wound up saying, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s sitting \u200cin \u2063the Speaker\u2019s seat or who has the majority. \u2064We \u200dkeep\u200c doing the same stupid stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That requires us to ask a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cotton-reveals-military-whistleblower-complaints-on-woke-training-bidens-secdef-insists-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-important-to-this-military\/\" title=\"WATCH: Cotton Reveals Military Whistleblower Complaints On Woke Training, Biden\u2019s SecDef Insists, \u2018Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Is Important To This Military\u2019\">pretty simple question<\/a>: Why is it that we keep doing the same stupid stuff? Is that a matter of not having the \u200cright people in power? Or is\u200c it just that the American people refuse to recognize the reality about\u200b themselves, which is that we constantly say that\u2063 we\u2062 want to balance the budget; we constantly say we \u200bwant to spend less money, and then as soon as there is a\u200d poll asking what we would like to cut, we all \u200brun for the hills\u2063 and\u200c we\u200c have no idea what it is that we would like to cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u2063 reality \u2064is, in order for any \u200bserious major change to get done, \u200cyou must \u200dhave unified party \u200bcontrol over\u2063 Congress, \u200cover the Senate, over \u200cthe\u2062 presidency,\u2063 and a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dedication\u2062 by that\u200d party\u2063 to take\u2063 the hit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats take the hits, by the way. There\u2019s something \u200dthe Democrats are good at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats took the hit in 2010. \u2062They passed Obamacare\u2063 and then they got shellacked at the polls. It was \u2064an exceptionally bad midterm for\u200b them. And they\u200d jumped ahead because they knew \u2064if they could \u2064completely restructure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-county-health-officials-urge-residents-to-wear-masks-at-home-to-protect-vulnerable-one-america-news-network\/\" title=\"L.A. County health officials urge residents to wear masks at home to protect vulnerable | One America News Network\">health care system<\/a>, in the end, these would \u200bbecome entitlements people relied \u200bupon. They\u2062 would rather take the \u200dshort-term\u200d hit for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/churches-that-bless-gay-marriage-victimize-children\/\" title=\"Churches That Bless Gay Marriage Victimize Children\">long-term gain<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When was the last time Republicans took a short-term hit for\u2062 the long-term gain? The answer is they haven\u2019t. The reason they don\u2019t is\u2063 because they\u2019re afraid they will be tossed out \u200bof\u200b office. So it\u2019s up to the American people\u200d to tell Washington that we actually want the spending cuts.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>CLICK\u2064 HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politicians \u2063make\u200c a living by lying to you\u2062 and you have\u2064 a choice: Your choice \u200cis <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">whether \u2064you like being lied to<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u200c You decide to go along \u2064with \u200ctheir lies or\u2062 whether\u2063 you \u2062don\u2019t like being lied to. Any \u200dpolitician who says he can\u200c save you,\u200b save\u2062 your family, or \u200dsave your society by spending money \u2062here or by restructuring \u2064a\u200c program\u200b there is lying to you.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vast majority of \u2062choices in your life are up to you.\u2062 When people rely on\u200c politicians\u200c too much, they end up \u2062shooting themselves in the foot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then they \u200cbuy into\u2064 the next grifter who comes along and suggests he\u2019s going to fix whatever problems \u2063are at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What role does \u200cthe\u200c current funding process for the government play in exacerbating the\u2064 fiscal\u2064 crisis<\/h2>\n<p><span>  T \u2064party to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-says-biggest-new-years-resolution-is-to-return-to-tropical-vacation-spot\/\" title=\"Joe Biden's top New Year's resolution is to revisit his favorite tropical getaway\">making tough \u2064decisions<\/a> and implementing necessary reforms. Without these conditions, it becomes nearly impossible to address the issue of fiscal responsibility effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there\u200b is a deep-rooted dependency on government spending that\u200b has been fostered over the years. As\u200d more and more individuals and groups become \u2062reliant on government funds, the ability to reign in spending becomes increasingly challenging. This creates a vicious cycle where \u200cpoliticians fear the backlash of cutting \u2062programs\u200d or reducing spending, even when it is \u200cnecessary for \u200bthe \u200bcountry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-win-situation-ousted-marvel-entertainment-head-says-he-told-disney-execs-dont-get-involved-in-politics\/\" title=\"\u2018No-Win Situation\u2019: Ousted Marvel Entertainment Head Says He Told Disney Execs \u2018Don\u2019t Get Involved In Politics\u2019\">long-term financial health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the\u2062 current funding process for the government exacerbates\u200c the problem.\u2064 Instead of engaging\u200d in serious negotiations \u200cand making thoughtful decisions on departmental budgets, lawmakers resort to\u200c passing continuing \u200bresolutions. \u2062These \u2064short-term budgets\u200c allow the government \u2063to keep spending without addressing the underlying issues or\u200c making any\u200b significant changes. As a result, the spending \u2062trend continues to rise, and the national debt continues to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Those who advocate for more drastic measures, such as government shutdowns \u2064or tougher\u2063 bargaining positions, fail to\u2064 recognize the reality\u200c of the situation. Even if such actions were taken, they would most likely result in the eventual passage of a continuing\u200d resolution and further losses in \u200cpolitical seats. The incentive structure simply does not align with the necessary actions to tackle the fiscal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2064Congress, it is\u200d easy for lawmakers to get lost in the crowd and maintain the status quo. Internal rules within the Republican Party, for example, require a bill to \u200dhave the support of the majority of Republicans before it can move forward. This makes it difficult \u2062for individuals like Texas Republican Chip Roy, who take the issue \u2064of spending \u200dseriously, to \u200cpush for\u2063 meaningful change.<\/p>\n<p>The root cause of \u200bthis\u2064 problem lies in\u2064 the American people themselves. While many claim to want fiscal\u200b responsibility and reduced\u200c spending,\u200d the reality\u2064 is that when \u200bconfronted with specific cuts,\u2063 individuals are often hesitant and unwilling\u200c to make the\u2063 necessary sacrifices.\u200b This inconsistency between public sentiment and action \u2063further perpetuates \u200cthe cycle of continued spending and mounting debt.<\/p>\n<p>To break this cycle, a fundamental shift in mindset is required. The American people must recognize the importance of fiscal responsibility\u200c and be willing to make the difficult choices that come with it. Moreover, there needs to be a concerted effort to elect leaders\u200d who are committed to addressing this issue and have the courage to implement the necessary reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the big lie that\u200d Americans tell\u200c themselves is that they want fiscal \u2064responsibility without truly understanding the implications or being willing to make\u2064 the necessary sacrifices. It is time for a wake-up call, for individuals to confront this lie, and\u200b for \u2064the country \u2062to \u2064take decisive action to ensure a financially sustainable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuously increase the national debt. Despite claiming to prioritize fiscal responsibility, we consistently choose leaders who contribute to the problem. 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