After Stand Up Comes What Again? – American Intelligence Test #8

The mid-term elections have come and gone, and the world (more precisely the world-view) has turned upside down for many folks. The Democrats have lost their unilateral partisan initiative in Congress. The Republican elite have lost their established internal party leadership control. The Tea Party has gone from “I’am not going to take it anymore!”protester status to student drivers of the family car. And Independent voters have affirmed that they don’t like either party (or any party if you consider the Tea Party other than a sub-species of Republican) and want to kick out the current contenders for most egregious Congressional incompetents of the moment.

Now will this reconstituted amalgam of extreme positionists accompanied by a sprinkling of moderates and a couple of independents be able to address and more critically solve the core problems facing America? Before you think you have the answer, it’s test time. To solve these problems even the best and brightest of these dullards require the same thing that the worst and dimmest ideologue would require to solve these problems; and now you have our test.

Scoring is your responsibility to assess. As always a willingness to deceive yourself, as to the correctness of your answers or beliefs, is just another measure of the actual intelligence being measured. To paraphrase Lincoln:

Some of us can fool ourselves all of the time, and all of us can fool ourselves some of the time, but all of us can not fool ourselves all of the time.

The opportunity to fail is at hand.

Question 1: What is the most important issue that must be addressed if America is to guarantee its future as a free, democratic and competitive world-class society?

A. Taxes B. Gov’t Spending C. Deficit D. Education. E. Employment

Question 2: Does reducing taxes guarantee that the economy will improve?

Yes No

Question 3: The Government cannot create jobs?

True False

Question 4: American’s tax rates are ____

A. to high B. to low C. appropriate D. a choice

Question 5: Who benefited from creating the American deficit?

A. Government bureaucracy

B. Wealthy class (say over $1M/year)

C. Middle class

D. Poor and welfare state

E. Industrial/Military complex

F. Everyone

The Critical Question X: What is the only rational, logical and acceptable requirement for addressing America’s top problem?

A. Reduce taxes B. Reduce spending C. both A & B D. there is no problem E. Pay off the debt

That’s it, you are done, and you can now decide if you scored high, low or in the middle. For anyone with an interest, here are the/my answers.

1: C    2: No    3: False    4: D     5: F     X: E

The problem is that our politicians, bureaucrats, special interest lobbyists and stupidly ourselves agreed to go into debt. We choose to indebt ourselves at any price rather than stand up and be responsible for our country and democracy. We ignore that our Constitution gave the responsibility for Federal spending to Congress, and we naively not only listen to but we believe (actually believe) politicians.

Can a people that stupid, that unprincipled, that devoid of the American values of our founding fathers have a chance at preserving our life, liberty and happiness? Naaa! Let’s fight about Constitutional Originalism.