Life is what Happens---

"Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans".

This statement is just so true it is sickening. And any of you who have "SURVIVED" past age 27 and 30 know it well.

My daughter and her boyfriend live very remotely in Oregon and don't watch TV. They are into the Internet and Netflix only for media. So, last night my younger 15 year old shared the first two episodes of "Glee" on DVD with them. They loved it. So I watched it with them. The very first "Large Group" song was Amy Winehouse's "No Rehab". I was horrified at the relevance of the meaning of the song that had killed Amy Winehouse this week.  She had valued her fans and her career more than she valued staying alive and it had cost her her life just like all the others in the "27 Club" over the years.

This  morning now I realized that Amy Winehouse's death also symbolized "The whole western World" in the sense that the excesses of the welfare state combined with the "Military state" carry over from World War II are also killing the western world's economies during the last economic downturns since 9-11.

Things are just so bad now where we spend 40 cents out of every dollar in interest payments to our creditors as a nation that we are close to defaulting. If you read Default, one of my documented blog articles on our and the Latin American nations of the 1970s and 1980s move toward default, you will read that when debts go up to 50 cents on the dollar default is almost automatic in any nation on earth of their debts. We are that close.

Because of this, it is likely we will lose some or all of Medicare and/or Social Security and we will tend to lose 1/2 to 1/4 of our military. The alternative is to lose our whole nation. And the decision for this is what is happening in our congress right now. All the planning on both the left and the right side of the aisle means nothing if we don't just decide to survive as a nation. If we don't bite the bullet and do whatever it takes to survive, ANY planning actually means less than nothing. Will we as a nation be another Amy Winehouse, addicted to our pride and our military and our social programs? Or will we choose to survive as a nation?  Remember, Pride comes before the fall.

Neither party is asking the most important question of all. "Do we want to survive as a nation?" Or are we going to let our pride kill us like Amy Winehouse?

Amy Winehouse - Rehab (on Later Live)