It's the cookie, stupid!

I bought a cookie at a convenience store today and a man noticed me and said that he saw me buy a cookie yesterday too and asked if I can afford it. I said, yesterday I bought the chocolate chunk flavor and today I bought the peanut butter flavor. He asked if one was healthier than the other and I said, no, they are different toppings but the cookie is the same, and both are equally unhealthy for me - I just wanted to see how they tasted.

Now that I think about it, it's a lot like America's two-party system. We have two different flavors of the same cookie - they both like to spend more than America can afford, and they both have a vision of America that is far different from what our founding fathers envisioned.  This may be an oversimplification, but during the recent budget crisis where the Republicans and Democrats agreed to form a "super-commitee" to decide on budget cuts to total $1.4 trillion over the next ten years, they couldn't agree on what to cut and this was big news. What this big news and all the talk about a balanced budget was hiding was the fact that $1.4 trillion over the next ten years is meaningless. What we need is to create a budget surplus of $1.4 trillion in the next 12 months and then maintain it for the subsequent 10 years in order to eliminate the country's $15 trillion national debt, without accounting for inflation.

The Republicans and Democrats are just fat cookies. Each one tastes good to different people but they are both bad for our health.

The Libertarian party is the ideological descendant of the founding fathers. Only the Libertarian party recognizes that both Republican-run and Democrat-run governments have had the same deleterious effects on our nation - money being forcibly taken from all citizens in some way to pay for special interests, rampant fraud and corruption endorsed by the government (both Republican president Bush and Democrat president Obama endorsed bailouts of companies) and handouts to either rich or poor citizens (just another flavor).