After sequestration and related politics, Americans should expect things to get worse

“I will break the pride of your power” (Leviticus 26:19)

The box that the US Congress and the Obama Administration put themselves into, then delayed, known as “sequestration” is now in effect. Here is one view of this approach:

March 4, 2013

(Reuters) – A sound plan is needed to reduce the budget deficit over the next 10 years, but wholesale government spending cuts should not be the core of the program, according to a new survey of economists. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/04/us-usa-economy-policy-idUSBRE92302Y20130304

A better approach is needed than the political gamesmanship that is currently going on. Economists know this, and political leaders should as well.

Here is another view:

March 4, 2013

As individuals and businesses put off expenditures due to actual and even potential loss of income, capital in the economy will diminish and all sectors will begin to contract. And that is the recipe for recession. Let’s not go there again. Please call, fax, or e-mail your senators and representative and tell them we want them to stay in Washington and work together — with President Barack Obama — until they find an acceptable compromise to avoid the pointless crippling of our economy that will result from sequestration. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-sequester-letter-20130304,0,5848890.story

I should mention that I do not believe that contacting political leaders at this stage will change the situation. Also, what will end up happening to the USA in the long run will be much worse than just another recession.

The purpose of the sequestration deal was to reduce the increase of the projected spending deficits for the US government. The cuts were supposed to be so painful that both Republicans and Democrats would simply have to come up with a better debt reduction plan–but such a plan was not agreed to. For both the Obama Administration and the House Republicans, political considerations are major factors in how they have, and now are, handling this matter.

Yet, even with sequestration the total US federal debt will grow. The Washington Post acknowledges now that, for Americans, they should expect things to get worse:

Nothing that has happened over the past month should give the average American any reason to think that things won’t get worse before they get better, because they almost certainly will.

Take the talk of a government shutdown, which will happen unless Congress can agree on a funding measure by March 27.

Yes, both President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledged late last week not to let a shutdown happen. But, remember that the sequester was put in place with the absolute certainty among both Republicans and Democrats that it would never happen. Here’s Obama on the sequester during the final presidential debate last fall: “It will not happen.” So . . .

Now that we are living in a post-sequestration world, then, it’s right to be skeptical of pledges made by politicians about what won’t ever come to pass…In short, if you think this is as bad as things can get, just wait awhile. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-the-sequestration-battle-things-will-only-get-worse/2013/03/03/f4ba0990-8412-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html

While there will be some better days, the overall trend is not good for the USA.

The expected debt growth is more dangerous than most imagine, and will ultimately lead to the elimination of the USA per various biblical prophecies:

43 The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you…47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. 52 They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you (Deuteronomy 28:42-45,47-52)

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry…5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man… 6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his–how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you (Habakkuk 2:3,5,6-8).

No other nation in the history of humanity has been as indebted as the United States of America. The Bible shows that this will end in disaster. And a disaster much worse than a “sequestration-induced” recession.

To learn more, please check out the following articles:

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