It only feels like it's out of control

Everyone keeps referring to "out of control" spending.

Let me be clear on one fact: Spending is NOT out of control. Our elected representatives have complete control over what is spent. It would be more accurate to describe our spending as immoral, irresponsible and reckless.

But most of all: Unconstitutional.

Our Pharisaical government has created countless 'traditions of the elders' that are unassailable. Built up over the years, these interpretations and extrapolations of the Constitution have piled up till we have a tower of babbling judges, lawyers and politicians who have lied to themselves for generations until they actually believe that the Constitution means the opposite of what it says. Instead of a limited government with enumerated powers, we have an unlimited government with any power it says it has.

Indeed, most elected representatives have lips that honor the Constitution, but their hearts are far, far from it.

And We, The People, have ceased to govern ourselves, content to let someone else nanny us. We are coming to the end of a once great civilization. One where families used to help each other. Instead we are claiming a sort of state sponsored Corban:

I can't help you, for what was once was mine to share with you is now earmarked for a bridge in Topeka, or a school breakfast in Poughkeepsie, or toilet seat in the Pentagon. But don't worry, you will be taken care of. I paid my taxes, the State will see to it.

The Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution, is collectively being ignored. The public debt increases to the tune of $4 billion a day. The constituency is sufficiently apathetic or misinformed or ill-equipped to think themselves out of a wet paper bag. There are many analyses as to why the once mighty Roman Empire fell. For whatever the reasons truly were, one cannot help but feel a foreboding that a similar fate is quickly machinating before our eyes.